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Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table

November 27th, 2013 · No Comments · Books

Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table tells a true story about how a professional basketball player took action after retirement. He wanted to bring more healthy and natural foods to communities that didn’t have access to them, so he bought some land that had greenhouses. From there, his idea took […]

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All Kinds of Kisses

January 16th, 2012 · 8 Comments · Books

Review By HOMA WOODRUM Lavishly illustrated, All Kinds of Kisses by Caldecott Medalist Nancy Tafuri is a big and bright book that follows animal parents kissing their babies. The unifying narrative that is noteworthy for veg parents, however, is that the animals featured are all connected by living on the same farm, ending with the human mother […]

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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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Babe (1995)

August 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Movies

Review By JESSICA ALMY I’d seen “Babe” years ago, at a time when I was neither a child nor a parent, so it was fun to revisit the movie with my 4-year-old daughter. What I’d forgotten, or perhaps hadn’t noticed, about the 1995 live-action flick when I’d seen it the first time was that it […]

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