42 Vegbooks reviews tagged Farmed Animals.
Part of the “Exploring Tough Issues” series, Why Do People Harm Animals? is a great introductory look at animal rights issues, organizations striving to protect animals, and a few of the opposition’s arguments.…
Tags: animal rightsCarolyn M. MullinChris MasonCircusCompanion AnimalsFarmed AnimalsFishingHuntingOlder ElementaryVivisection
Whoever uses the word “chicken” to mean cowardly has certainly not met Louise, the feathered heroine of Kate DiCamillo’s book. Louise longs for adventure and wanders off the farm to find it. She narrowly escapes…
Tags: Animals in CaptivityChickensCircusEarly ElementaryFarmed AnimalsFemale ProtagonistHarry BlissKate DiCamilloPreschoolers
What a wonderful book for vegetarian and vegan kids! Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Melissa Sweet team up to create a playful adventure book about saving a chicken. Set in the bayou, Chicken Joy on Redbean Road is the…
Tags: Best Books for Vegetarian KidsChickensEarly ElementaryFarmFarmed AnimalsJacqueline Briggs MartinMelissa SweetPreschoolersVegetarian Kids Books
Before Granny Gomez and Jigsaw, vegetarian and vegan families had Susan Jeschke’s book Perfect the Pig. Celebrating porcine intelligence and the human-animal bond, Ms. Jeschke’s storybook also deals with animal…
Tags: Animal AbuseBest Books for Vegetarian KidsCompassionEarly ElementaryFarmFarmed AnimalsInterspecies FriendshipLesson PlansMeat-eatingPerforming AnimalsPigsVegan Childrens BooksVegetarian Kids Books
I’d seen “Babe” years ago, at a time when I was neither a child nor a parent, so it was fun to revisit the movie with my 4-year-old daughter. What I’d forgotten, or perhaps hadn’t noticed, about the 1995 live-action…
Tags: 1990s MoviesAnimals as FoodEarly ElementaryFamily MoviesFarmed AnimalsFarmingLive Action MoviesOlder ElementaryParentsPigsPreschoolers
Animals are dressed up on a regular basis and made to appear as something they are not. It may be in a circus, a show or even a photo shoot, as in Swine Divine. In this book, Rosie is a pig who gets a bath and then…
Tags: Early ElementaryFarmed AnimalsJacqueline BodnarJan CarrPigsPreschoolers
The reality that most vegetarian parents face when it comes to the way cows are treated is that the vast majority of these animals don’t have it good, to put it mildly. Pumped full of growth hormone and antibiotics,…
Tags: Books to AvoidCowsDairyDairy IndustryEarly Elementaryfactory farmingFarmed AnimalsFarmingJacqueline BodnarMalachy DoylePreschoolers
In its May/June issue, The Horn Book (a leading journal about children’s literature) featured an article by vegetarian and children’s book author Jennifer Armstrong. Ms. Armstrong tackled the apparent inconsistency…
Tags: animal rightsFarmed AnimalsHealthy LivingMichael CrolandRaising Vegan KidsThe Horn Bookveganvegan kidsVegan ParentsVegetarianvegetarian kids
Anne Miranda’s brilliant spoof of Mother Goose’s not-so-vegetarian-friendly nursery rhyme “To Market, To Market” is full of humor and compassion, teaching kids that animals make better companions than they do food.…
Tags: ALA Notable Children's booksAnne MirandaBest Books for Vegetarian KidsFarmed AnimalsFemale ProtagonistGood for ToddlersHealthy LivingJanet StevensPreschoolersveganVegetarianVegetarian Kids Books
Farm animals are nothing short of magnificent. Seemingly, they’re more esoteric than our household companion animals, but friendlier and more approachable than say wildlife from the African savannah. Perhaps that’s…
Tags: Carolyn M. MullinChickensCoffee Table BooksCowsEarly ElementaryFarmed AnimalsGoatsMaya GottfriedOlder ElementaryPigsPoetryPreschoolersTurkeys
Pamela the clever cow will stop at nothing for her favorite fruit: pears. This is a cute story about a determined cow who overcomes all efforts to restrain her. The people (from whom Pamela steals the pears) try…
Tags: Bruce WhatleyCowsEarly ElementaryFarmed AnimalsFruitHuyen MacMichaelJackie FrenchPreschoolers
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
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
Janet Morgan Stoeke writes and illustrates an unusual Easter story from a chicken’s perspective. Minerva Louise is a compassionate chicken with a personality. As she enjoys the sights of spring, she discovers…
Tags: ChickensEarly ElementaryEasterEggsFarmed AnimalsFemale ProtagonistGood SamaritanHuyen MacMichaelJanet Morgan StoekeMinerva LouisePreschoolers
Written by poet Eve Merriam and illustrated by Pam Paparone, Low Song is a rhythmic ode to all things small and low. The narrator sings the praises of dachshunds, a cow’s tongue licking clover, sleeping giraffes, and…
Tags: CowsDachshundsDogsEarly ElementaryFarmed AnimalsGiraffesPreschoolersRaccoonsSeasonsvegan kidsWildlife
Little kids seem to love Sandra Boynton’s board books. Of all of that kiddo had, this is my favorite, in part because it teaches about the sounds animals make (albeit from a pretty anglo perspective) but also because…
Tags: Baby BookBoard BookCatsCowsDogsFarmed AnimalsIllustrationPigSandra BoyntonSheep
Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants, wrote and illustrated a decidedly pro-vegetarian children’s book for publishing behemoth Scholastic. In a playful parody on the classic Christmas poem, Pilkey brings a…
Tags: ActivitiesDav PilkeyEarly ElementaryFarmed AnimalsHoliday BooksLesson PlansPreschoolersThanksgivingThanksgiving Books for Vegetarian KidsTurkeysveganVegan Authorvegan kidsVegan ThanksgivingVegetarianvegetarian kidsVegetarian Kids BooksVegetarian Thanksgiving
This is a book where the publisher compiled adorable photos of animals – with some close-ups worthy of Cute Overload – and added simple text. Each page is told from an animal’s perspective. How you’ll feel about this…
Tags: Baby BookBoard BookChickensCowsfactory farmingFarmed AnimalsHorsesMomma AnimalsMoms and BabiesPhotosPigSheepVegetarian