Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN In the heart of California, in the midst of rolling hills, there is a very special place known as PAWS to us humans, and considered heaven-on-earth by dozens of elephants, tigers, and other big cats. Started by Pat Derby, former Hollywood animal trainer turned animal advocate, the Performing Animal Welfare […]
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Over on a Mountain
February 26th, 2016 · No Comments · Books
Review By KRISTIN WALD Families and classrooms familiar with the traditional counting song “Over in the Meadow” will love trying out this creative version that can be read or sung. Author and educator Marianne Berkes has several versions on this theme, and Over on a Mountain is a beautiful and worthy addition to the collection. With […]
Tags: Activities·Animals·Baby Animals·Early Elementary·Illustration·Jill Dubin·Kristin Wald·Marianne Berkes·Preschoolers·Wild Animals·Zoos
A Boy and His Jaguar
August 1st, 2014 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN A Boy and His Jaguar is one of the sweetest, most honest, and fragile works of children’s literature I’ve come across in a while. Rabinowitz candidly, yet innocently paints us a picture of his young life as a stutterer (“people ignore or misunderstand or hurt me”) and the only times […]
Tags: Alan Rabinowitz·Animals in Captivity·Carolyn M. Mullin·CaTia Chien·Differences·Jaguars·Picture Books·Speech·Wild Animals in Captivity·Zoos
The Zoo Box
July 19th, 2014 · No Comments · Books
Review By HOMA WOODRUM Vegbooks readers will rejoice that The Zoo Box by Ariel Cohn and Aron Nels Steinke gets kids thinking about what it would mean to be on the other side of a zoo exhibit without being preachy or making conclusions on their behalf. Spoiler alert: I’ll detail the storyline here since the spoilers […]
Tags: Ariel Cohn·Aron Nels Steinke·Captive Wildlife·Early Elementary·Graphic Novels·Homa Woodrum·Preschoolers·Wild Animals·Wild Animals in Captivity·Zoos