11 Vegbooks reviews tagged Animal Liberation.
Last weekend we visited Boston with our four year old daughter. Not living in a coastal town, seafood is not really a part of our life, and beyond fish, I don’t think my daughter was aware that people eat seafood. In…
Tags: Animal LiberationAnimals as FoodEric T. KrackowJennifer GinnJennifer KaliLobstersPreschoolers
Kiddo and I thoroughly enjoyed this adventure story about a young girl named Tua (meaning “peanut”) and her friend Pohn-Pohn, the elephant. Set in Thailand, the chapter book opens with their meeting — where Tua…
Tags: Animal LiberationAnimal RescueCaptive WildlifeChapter BooksEarly ElementaryElephant SanctuaryElephantsFemale ProtagonistInterspecies FriendshipOlder ElementaryR. P. HarrisTaeeun YooThai FoodsThailandWild Animals in Captivity
At first blush, a whodunnit about a mysterious death in FunJungle, a glitzy animal theme park, might not be considered a great choice for aware veg kids and their families or friends. However, Stuart Gibbs’s Belly…
Tags: Animal LiberationAnimals in CaptivityCaptive WildlifeChapter BooksHippopotamusJennifer GannettOlder ElementaryStuart GibbsWild Animals in CaptivityWildlife
Life isn’t so lucky for most lobsters. Snatched from their habitats, they are kept in crowded tanks until they’re bought and boiled alive. Given new evidence that despite their simple nervous systems, lobsters may…
Tags: Animal Liberationanimal rightsAnimal SufferingBooks for Vegetarian KidsCrustaceansE-BooksGary DorionJennifer TaylorLobstersVegan Childrens Books
The Chimpanzee Kid is the story of seventh grader Harold Pinto. Harold is a sensitive kid with a history of taking up causes that other kids in his school are uninterested in hearing about, and consequently is…
Tags: Animal LiberationAnimal Rescueanimal rightsChimpanzeesDivorceGriefGrievingJennifer GannettLaboratory AnimalsOlder ElementaryPrimatesVivisection
Looking for a feel-good children’s story about a pair of mature lobsters netted and dragged to Rhode Island, shipped to Philadelphia for sale, flown back home to Maine and the returned to the wild? Yes? In that…
Tags: Animal Liberationanimal rightsDemonstrationsEarly ElementaryEarly ReadersJennifer GannettLobstersMarine AnimalsProtests
What happens when you take an arrogant jungle lion and put him in a circus? He finds that he much preferred life in the jungle, and he returns with a new, more refined attitude toward his animal neighbors. In Deep in…
Tags: Animal LiberationCircusCommunityDan YaccarinoEarly ElementaryJacqueline BodnarLionsPreschoolersRespect for Nature
Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo is a series of books about a young girl. In Free the Worms, she is at odds with the notion that she is a vegetarian and her teacher wants the class to gather worms to feed to the classroom…
Tags: Animal LiberationFemale ProtagonistJacqueline BodnarMeat-eatingNancy KrulikOlder ElementaryVegetarian CharactersVegetarian Protagonist
Poor, poor Farmer Duck! He irons. He gardens. He even does the dishes. Duck has been picking up the “real” farmer’s slack while the sloth lies in bed, munching on chocolates. Bleary eyed and exhausted from all his…
Tags: Animal LiberationAnimal Rights Books for KidsCarolyn M. MullinChickensCowsDucksFarmed AnimalsFarmingFriendshipHard WorkMartin WaddellPigs
We know that reading is important, but in Souperchickenby Mary Jane and Herm Auch, Henrietta discovers just how life-saving reading can be. On the farm, Henrietta’s aunts wonder why Henrietta spends so much time…
Tags: Animal EscapeAnimal LiberationBest Books for Vegetarian KidsChickensEarly ElementaryHerm AuchMarsha RakestrawMary Jane AuchOlder ElementaryVegetarian Kids Books
The last laugh is on the farmers in The Great Pig Escape by Eileen Christelow. Bert and Ethel decide to try their hand at pig farming. When it’s time to take the pigs to auction, the pigs concoct an escape plan that…
Tags: Animal EscapeAnimal LiberationEarly ElementaryEileen ChristelowFarmed AnimalsMarsha RakestrawPigsRead Aloud