Entries Tagged as 'Cows'

Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type

April 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Introduce little ones to the ideas of worker’s rights, justice and compromise through the 32 funny and colorful pages of Click, Clack, Moo. The cold farm cows are on strike until they receive electric blankets and they let Farmer Brown know through type-written memos. Brown is agitated by the typewriter-using, […]

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14 Cows for America

March 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT 14 Cows for America is the true story of a Maasai village’s response to the September 11, 2001 attacks.  One of the villagers, Wilson Kimeli Ole-Naiyomah, was in Manhattan on that day, and when he returned to his remote village in Africa months later, he brought news of the devastation and […]

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Onion Juice, Poop, and Other Surprising Sources of Alternative Energy

December 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN If Deformed Frogs sounded pretty bad, get ready for Onion Juice, Poop, and Other Surprising Sources of Alternative Energy. Repugnant as it may be, these energy sources reel kids into learning about our global reliance on soon-to-be-dried-up fossil fuels and the numerous alternatives that are either on the market or […]

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Benji Bean Sprout Doesn’t Eat Meat

October 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY Sarah Rudy’s slim paperback portrays a school-age boy’s crisis of faith in vegetarianism. While this book is likely to appeal only to a narrow subsection of vegetarians, it could serve as a helpful tool for parents responding to peer pressure to eat meat. The plot is simple. Bullied because of his […]

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