Review By JESSICA ALMY I tend to oppose zoos and zoo literature for children. As much as zoos try to replicate the natural habitats of exotic animals, an image from a childhood visit to a zoo is indelibly marked in my mind: the eyes of a nonhuman primate behind thick plexiglass looking blankly forward, seeming not […]
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Mother to Tigers
July 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Tags: Animal Welfare·Biography·Books·Captive Wildlife·Chimpanzees·George Ella Lyon·Helen Martini·Tigers·Zoo
Calvin Can’t Fly: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie
April 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Calvin is a young starling who is different from his three brothers, four sisters and sixty-seven thousand four hundred and thirty-two cousins (as this humorous book points out, starlings have big families). When it comes time for the young starlings to discover the world around them, Calvin’s family members stick strictly […]
Tags: Birds·Books·Community·Early Elementary·Jennifer Berne·Jennifer Gannett·Keith Bendis·Library·Preschoolers·Reading·Starlings·Wildlife