Review By KRISTIN WALD What more can be said about Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone? The obsessively beloved first book of the seven book series has been dissected and read and re-read since it first burst onto the Young Adult literary scene. For families raising their children with vegetarian and vegan values, how do […]
Entries Tagged as 'Animals in Captivity'
A Boy and His Jaguar
August 1st, 2014 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN A Boy and His Jaguar is one of the sweetest, most honest, and fragile works of children’s literature I’ve come across in a while. Rabinowitz candidly, yet innocently paints us a picture of his young life as a stutterer (“people ignore or misunderstand or hurt me”) and the only times […]
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Brown Bear & Friends
January 12th, 2014 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER KALI My four-month-old son received the Brown Bear & Friends Board Book Gift Set (Amazon affiliate link) for Christmas. It contains the three Eric Carle books — the classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? — and two additional titles that I was not familiar with — Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do […]
Tags: Animals in Captivity·Baby Book·Bears·Board Books·Captive Wildlife·Eric Carle·Good for Toddlers·Jennifer Kali·Wild Animals·Zoos
View from a Zoo
January 1st, 2014 · 2 Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER KALI I received this book as a review copy from the author. It is the story of a house cat that has a nice cushy life in a warm, comfy house. But she gets bored staring out the window at the world – she wants to experience the world. After sneaking out of the house […]
Tags: Animals in Captivity·Artie Knapp·Cats·Early Elementary·Jennifer Kali·Lions·Preschoolers·Sunayana Nair Kanjilal·Zoos