Vegan children’s comic, Marvellous Mildred episode 3, continues.
For the story so far, click here.
Oh dear oh dear! I hope they can stop it in time. Come back tomorrow to find out what happens next.
What’s a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, it’s like any other storybook except the central characters – the heroes – are vegan 😀
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes – the people you liked, the people you were rooting for – ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in children’s stories they send a message – they tell the child that it’s okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. It’s normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend it’s okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan children’s books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones – one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ❤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er – a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And there’s the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
There’s even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do – you can read them all for free here at Violet’s Vegan Comics – and keep coming back because we’re adding more all the time. We just can’t help ourselves!
I love these courageous kids going to stop that horrible contraption!
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Yes they are very brave, aren’t they? 😀 Thank you 😀
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They could be Gryfindors! I wish I were one, but I’m a Ravenclaw…
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Is that like a magical star sign then, it’s connected to your personality?
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No, Gryfindor and Ravenclaw are houses at Hogwarts school, from the Harry Potter universe.
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Oh, I see. 😀 So how do you know which one you are?
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Well, for a long time I’d just assumed that I was a Gryffindor, but then I found an online test by Time Magazine, and figured I’d try it, which confirmed my suspicion that I was actually a Ravenclaw! LOL!
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It made sense, when I pondered it dourly, since despite being called brave, in years past, I actually value learning and teaching above all else, provided that one does act with courage when the times call for it. I guess that lines me up more with Ravenclaw values than with Gryfindor values.
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Oh I see, that’s fascinating. Yes, I’ve read about different personality types, and I remember identifying with the qualities that I aspired to more than the ones I naturally had. 😀
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The Myers-Briggs was the big one, back in the 80s when I was in middle and high school, and I’ve taken it 3 times, over the course of the past 40 years. I have always come up as an I(or edge of E, back in my desperate to fit in 20s), but solid NTJ (INTJs are supposed to be known for being a bit on the arrogant side, so I try to be extra friendly to make up for it, sometimes!).
Now, I think that most of these indicators are merely ways of helping managers sort people, but they can have some use, I suppose.
Now that I’m 52, I just set my sights on what I want my life to mean, at the end, and work toward that.
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That’s interesting, I’ve never come across the Myers-Briggs test before. 😀
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Really? It was the standard thing back in the 80’s for leadership, schools (at least the TalentedAndGifted teachers thought so), in Civil Air Patrol and Jr. ROTC, so we got tested to death with the M-B by the time I finished High school (in 1988).
Then even again at Space Telescope and BBN, we got tested when I worked there (still early 90s).
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Wow, you worked on a space telescope?! That sounds fascinating.
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On the first one, the Hubble, at Space Telescope Science Institute, back in 89-91. I got an internship as a work-study student in my last year of university, Computer Science, and then I got a job there in a different branch writing utilities to help the astronomers with their observations.
The coolest thing was the 1st Costar mission, when NASA sent up a shuttle to “put eyeglasses on the Hubble” because the 1st lenses had been ground wrong. I’d studied data compression because the algorithms being used to correct for the incorrect grinding were interesting. So, after a week of being closed (some of us drove down to Florida to see the launch!), we get back to the building, as my department had to go in before others to set up scheduling, and there was a giant banner across the top of the building that said:
“Dear STSCI: We have your telescope. If you want it back, please pay us 15 billion dollars. Love, the astronauts of SM1.”
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It was hysterical! I loved being part of (ok, the butt of ) a prank like that, and then we got to meet the astronauts from that mission, and shake all of their hands, after they came back.
Then it was back to arguing with PhD astronomers who thought they knew coding better than someone with a mere bachelor’s degree. But, oh, well.
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Wow, that sounds like such an interesting place to work! 😀 That must’ve been funny to arrive back and find that banner there. 😀
Incredible.
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It was!
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And it was super cool to be involved in such a great prank!
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😀 Excellent 😀
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Now they seem to have more function based ideas, like Idea people, or something like that, from what I hear.
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I think it’s an area which is very much open to interpretation, so I’m sure they will keep coming up with new ways to assess and approach it. 😀
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Makes sense.
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I can drop you the link here, if you like.
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Yes please, that would be really nice, thank you. 😀
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https://time.com/4809884/harry-potter-house-sorting-hat-quiz/
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Thank you! 😀
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My pleasure, I hope you enjoy it! I was surprised to see that the Myers-Briggs is not considered especially accurate or scientific, by Time’s team, so I was really curious to see how I’d come out on their Sorting Hat test (Ravenclaw), as I’d expected to be a Gryffindor for so long.
Boy, was I surprised!
So, I guess that “Wit beyond measure IS man’s greatest treasure” after all!
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Wit, wisdom and cleverness are very good traits, perhaps Ravenclaws are just too wise to ever fall into situations where bravery is necessary. 😀 I think really I’m half Gryffindor and half Ravenclaw, really, which I like a lot, it makes me feel balanced. 😀
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Balance is good! 🙂
I loved the Luna Lovegood character, a Ravenclaw in Dumbledore’s Army!
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Yes, she’s one of my favourite characters. 😀
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Ah, Luny, er, Luna!
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This is a fun quiz, I am 44.8% Gryffindor, and 40.9% Ravenclaw, and 14.3% Hufflepuff. 😀
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Ah!! I envy you!!!!!
You’re a Gryffindor!!
I wanted to be a Gryffindor, but I guess I’m just not brave enough!
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😀 But you’re very witty, wise and clever! 😀 So that’s all good. 😀
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Well, I thank you for your compliments, though I’m not sure I’m all that.
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