Review By JENNIFER KALI The Bunnicula series were my wife’s favorite childhood books. She’s very excited to finally have a child old enough to share this series of books with her. It tells the story of the Monroe family adopting a very strange bunny named Bunnicula. Good natured but slow-witted Harold the Dog (the narrator) and snobby […]
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Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery
October 16th, 2015 · 5 Comments · Books
Tags: Chapter Books·Deborah Howe·Early Elementary·James Howe·Jennifer Kali·Older Elementary·Rabbits·Vampires·Vegetarian Protagonist
Otter and Odder
February 19th, 2013 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Otter and Odder (affiliate link) is a stirring story of true love, tough choices and happy endings. When Otter, on the search for dinner, falls in love with a fish, an obvious dilema ensues. He looks into her “round, sweet, glistening eyes” and finds that he is in love with his food source! Otter has fallen […]
Tags: Animals as Food·Beavers·Chris Raschka·Early Elementary·Fish·Interspecies Friendship·James Howe·Jennifer Gannett·Otters
Houndsley and Catina
September 20th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Books
Review By HOMA WOODRUM On vacation recently, I stopped into an independent bookshop that exclusively catered to children’s books and let them know I was looking for charming chapter books. Moments later I had a number of books to choose from and was flipping through the first of four books in the Houndlsey and Catina […]
Tags: Books for Vegetarian Kids·Cats·Chapter Books·Companion Animals·Depiction of Vegetarian Food in Books·Dogs·Early Elementary·Friendship·Homa Woodrum·James Howe·Marie-Louise Gay·Preschoolers·Vegetarian Characters