Review By KRISTIN WALD Everyone loves baby animals. Even the most jaded adult will admit to succumbing to warm fuzzies when faced with kittens and puppies. Suzi Eszterhas, an award-winning wildlife photographer, has a new series from Frances Lincoln called Eye on the Wild. The first two of the four-book series are Cheetah and Gorilla. A combination of […]
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Eye on the Wild: Cheetah and Gorilla
April 11th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Books
Tags: Animal Families·Baby Animals·Big Cats·Cheetahs·Early Elementary·Good for Toddlers·Gorillas·Great Apes·Kristin Wald·Mother's Day·Mothers·Natural History·Nonfiction·Older Elementary·Photography·Preschoolers·Primates·Suzi Eszterhas
Manatee Winter
March 18th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By JENNIFER KALI Manatee Winter tells the story of a mother manatee and her calf in late fall taking the journey from the chilly Gulf of Mexico to warmer waters of a spring fed river. The journey is long and the water is cold and the mother and calf get tired along the way. […]
Tags: Animals·Baby Animals·Florida·Good for Toddlers·Jennifer Kali·Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld·Manatees·Marine Animals·Marine Mammals·Mother's Day·Mothers·Preschoolers·Steven James Petruccio
Who’s in a Family?
February 12th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER KALI We’ve been reading this book a lot lately. We picked it up at a garage sale over the summer, but it wasn’t until recently that my 2.5 year old became interested in it. The book depicts many different types of families. Families shown in the book are mixed race, two mom, two dad, single […]
Tags: Animal Families·Diverse Families·Divorce·Father's Day·Fathers·Good for Toddlers·Grandparents·Jennifer Kali·Mother's Day·Mothers·Preschoolers·Robert Skutch·Two-Dad Families·Two-Mom Families
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 […]
Tags: Animal Families·Animals·Baby Book·Chickens·Farm·Farmed Animals·Farming·Good for Toddlers·Homa Woodrum·Illustration·Mother's Day·Mothers·Nancy Tafuri·Pigs·Preschoolers·Sheep