Review By ANDREA ZOLLMAN I’ve loved elephants my whole life and eagerly anticipated receiving this review copy. After reading this book, however, visiting an elephant enclosure at the zoo will never be the same for me. When Anju Loved Being an Elephant tells the heartbreaking and poignant story of a Sumatran elephant who is abducted at a […]
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When Anju Loved Being an Elephant
June 23rd, 2012 · 6 Comments · Books
Tags: Andrea Zollman·animal rights·Animal Rights Books for Kids·Animals in Captivity·Best Books for Vegetarian Kids·Captive Wildlife·Circus·Early Elementary·Elephants·John Butler·Preschoolers·Wendy Henrichs·Wild Animals in Captivity·Zoo
Animals at Play: Rules of the Game
June 13th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Marc Bekoff is one of the world’s leading ethologists, a zoologist that studies animal behavior, and I’m lucky to consider him not only a mentor (he sits on the Advisory Council for the National Museum of Animals & Society), but a friend. He has an incredible book publishing empire covering animal emotions, […]
Tags: Animal Behavior·Animal Cognition·Animal Families·Carolyn M. Mullin·Coyotes·Dogs·Elephants·Mammals·Marc Bekoff·Michael J. DiMotta·Nonfiction·Older Elementary·Sea Lions·Wallabies
Vegan Is Love
April 30th, 2012 · 6 Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Many veg families are familiar with author/illustrator Ruby Roth’s first book That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals, in which the reasons for compassionate eating are assiduously laid out. Ms. Roth’s most recent book, Vegan Is Love, is aimed at a slightly older audience (seven and up) and picks up where her […]
Tags: Animals as Food·Animals in Entertainment·Anti-Hunting·Best Books for Vegetarian Kids·Circus·Compassion·Controversial Kids Books·Early Elementary·Elephants·Hunting·Jennifer Gannett·Older Elementary·Raising Vegan Kids·Ruby Roth·vegan·Vegan Author·Vegan Childrens Books·vegan is love·Vegan Parenting·Vegan Parents
Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
April 29th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Books
Review By HOMA WOODRUM We’ve been really enjoying our review copy of Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart. Full of lovely illustrations by Michael Emberly, the poems are organized into eleven categories and are all selected by former Children’s Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman with a mind towards memorization. My 3-1/2 year old daughter and I […]
Tags: Early Elementary·Elephants·Homa Woodrum·Mary Ann Hoberman·Michael Emberly·Poetry·Poets·Preschoolers