8 Vegbooks reviews tagged Rats.
Using what we’ve learned to hate about rats, DIRTY RATS?, leads us from familiar (disgusted!) territory to cute, helpful, furry territory with interesting facts and adorable images of many different kinds of rats.…
Tags: Adam GustavsonDarrin LundeEarly ElementaryIssues Facing WildlifeKristin WaldRatsUrban WildlifeWild Animals
This story is, in a word, charming. The Monsters’ Monster is the tale of three tiny monster friends who constantly bicker over which of them is the biggest and baddest monster. Ultimately, they can’t make up their…
Tags: BatsCaretakingGood for ToddlersHumorJunk FoodKatrina Donovan FlemingKindnessMonstersPatrick McDonnellPicture BooksPreschoolersRatsSnakesSpiders
Authored by humane educator extraordinaire Zoe Weil, Claude and Medeatraces the compassionate awakening of two twelve year olds. Both students at a prestigious private school in Manhattan, Claude comes from a…
Tags: Animal RescueAnimal Researchanimal rightsDogsHumane EducationJennifer GannettOlder ElementaryPortrayal of Vegetarians in BooksRatsVegetarian CharactersVegetarian ProtagonistZoe Weil
When a mama mouse living in a field must save her family from the plow, including her son who is stricken with pneumonia, she discovers a secret world of super-intelligent rats who have suffered at the hands of…
Tags: 1980s Childrens MoviesAnimal Researchanimal rightsAnimated MoviesDon BluthEarly ElementaryFemale ProtagonistMiceOlder ElementaryRatsVivisection
Pinch is a hoarding packrat who initially refuses to give up any of his stuff for the town’s tag sale. His house was overflowing onto the street with “piles of magazines and old clothes” and toys and other items. His…
Tags: ConsumptionEarly ElementaryEco-Friendly Kids BooksHoardingHuyen MacMichaelMaterialismPreschoolersRatsRecyclingResaleSteve CoxSteven KrollStuffTag SalesWaste
That Pesky Rat by British children’s author/illustrator Lauren Child is a wonderful story about a brown rat who doesn’t quite fit in with his life circumstances. As he introduces himself and takes us on a tour of his…
Tags: Early ElementaryJennifer GannettLauren ChildPet StoresPreschoolersRatsRodents
“Let me root, root, root for the home team. If they don’t win it’s a shame.” Let’s just say I was rooting for this book, but with more than three strikes The Animal Rescue Store is awash. Based on and inspired by a…
Tags: Anne WilsonBooks to AvoidCarolyn M. MullinElizabeth SwadosPoetryRatsSnakes
In Give Us a Chance, author Jane Mann introduces us to those creatures “we love to hate or may not yet appreciate.” It’s a short book of 26 rhyming poems intended to provide some understanding of the animals who…
Tags: AntsBirdsEarly ElementaryInsectsJane MannMagpiesOlder ElementaryPigeonsRatsRespect for NatureRobyn MooreSpiders