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
On Parade
October 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN It’s about time for an honest, open, factual, and focused discussion with older children about how animals suffer in our society. Rob Laidlaw, author of Wild Animals in Captivity and founder of Zoocheck Canada, recognized that and addresses his latest work, On Parade, on the subject of animals in entertainment. […]
Tags: Animals in Entertainment·Captive Wildlife·Carolyn M. Mullin·Circus·Older Elementary·Rob Laidlaw·Wild Animals in Captivity·Zoo
Mother to Tigers
July 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY I tend to oppose zoos and zoo literature for children. As much as zoos try to replicate the natural habitats of exotic animals, an image from a childhood visit to a zoo is indelibly marked in my mind: the eyes of a nonhuman primate behind thick plexiglass looking blankly forward, seeming not […]
Tags: Animal Welfare·Biography·Books·Captive Wildlife·Chimpanzees·George Ella Lyon·Helen Martini·Tigers·Zoo
Peter and the Pigeons
November 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY Children’s literature is notoriously easy on the zoo industry. Zoos are depicted as places that animals want to be — with little mention of whether it’s natural for elephants to stand on concrete, or whether lions should really be pacing in their enclosures. So when a kids book is even a […]
Tags: Animals in Captivity·Birds·Charlotte Zolotow·City·Early Elementary·Lions·Martine Gourbault·Pigeons·Preschoolers·Urban·Zoo