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Giveaway #1 Winner!
And the winner of our first Honestly Books giveaway: How Many Friends Could A Bibbolybob Make If A Bibbolybob Came To Earth?, by Edward Benn and Juliet Mahoney, is Bookish Heather! Congratulations Heather – we will send the book to you as soon as you contact us with your address 😀
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A More Innocent and Wholesome Diet
” … he will be regarded as a benefactor of his race who shall teach man to confine himself to a more innocent and wholesome diet. Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating…
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Giveaway Number 1: Wibbolywub and the Earthlings
How many friends could a Bibbolybob make if a Bibbolybob came to Earth? (aka Wibbolywub and the Earthlings) by Edward Benn and Juliet Mahoney, will be our first giveaway of the Honestly Books stash. You can read our review of this lovely book here, but basically it is just a fun story, with happy, colourful…
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Children’s Books Giveaways!
We’re very excited! Honestly Books are so happy with our reviews of their books (see here) that they’ve sent us a selection to giveaway to our readers! 😀 Woohoo! So, here’s what we’re going to do – starting tomorrow we’ll give away one book a week to a lucky prize draw entrant anywhere in the…
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Trees for the Future
Plant Trees. Change Lives. Trees for the Future
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British Forest Garden
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Wait ’til you see page 7!
For the story so far, click here Well, it’s a good start 😀
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When the lights came back on …
For the story so far, click here 🙂 When the lights came back on, Venus, Adi and Jean took to the stage. After an encouraging response from the crowd, the girls exited stage right, and Venus bumped into someone less encouraging. To be continued …
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WATCH
For the story so far, click here To be continued … (Music: cover of The Cure’s A Forest, by Ping Trace)
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Who’s Afraid of the Dark?
For the story so far, click here Inside the hall, the meeting had already started. Then, backstage – To be continued …
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6 Days Later …
For the story so far, click here To be continued …
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Tell you what
For the story so far, click here To be continued …
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Doing the legwork
For the story so far, click here To be continued …
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And if we object
For the story so far click here 🙂 To be continued …
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Slow down …
For the story so far, click here To be continued …
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Panic!
For the story so far, click here 🙂 To be continued …
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Higher Faculties
“I believe that every man who has ever been in earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food, …” Henry David Thoreau Walden and Other Writings ISBN 9780553212464 Bantam Books Page 276
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Listen to Hear
For the story so far click here
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Dastardly Plan
It’s ironic because it has happened during this story, but my hard-working laptop has finally given up the ghost. Because of everything I am learning in the crafting of Venus’s latest adventure I am determined to keep my electricity consumption to an absolute minimum so will not replace the laptop. Instead I am attempting to…
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Venus’s Saturday
For the story so far, click here To be continued …
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Commercial Break
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Adi’s Saturday
For the story so far, click here To be continued …
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Jean’s Saturday
For the story so far, click here Jean’s Saturday: to be continued …
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The following morning …
For the story so far, click here So, the following morning … To be continued …
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Who’s got the power?
For the story so far, click here to be continued …
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So how can we get good electricity?
For the story so far, click here To be continued …
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Eco friendly AND animal friendly?
For the story so far, click here To be continued …
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We love birds
Click here for the story so far To be continued …
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It was Friday …
For the story so far go to Episodes 1, 2 and 3. Venus Aqueous Episode 4 starts here: To be continued …
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Venus #4 starts tomorrow!
Venus Aqueous Episode #4 starts tomorrow! Don’t miss it! 😉 By the way, you can go to the 8 years and up page to find the earlier episodes and get the story so far if you want to 😀
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Compassion. It’s universal.
Catskill Animal Sanctuary rescues farmed animals, ignites social change to end their exploitation, and champions vegan living. Subscribe to their e-news, Herd Around the Barn: casanctuary.org/herd
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The best friend anyone could want
Two best friends, Tillie and Phoebe, had a brilliant time, sneaking off to play when someone left the door open at their guardian’s house party. But it all went horribly wrong when 4 year old Phoebe got stuck in a hole she couldn’t get out of. She might have known she would be ok though,…
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Edmund’s Lunch was a peculiar lunch, so everybody said
Edmund’s Lunch is available as a little paperback which includes the recipe for his delicious vegan, gluten-free lunch. It is also one of the stories in the collection Why are you a vegan? and other wacky verse for kids (not including the recipe)
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Don’t Be A Volpar!
To read a big version of this story at your own pace, click here 😀 For more musical vids, click here 😀
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Emmeline Rose said ….
To see the story/rhyme bigger go to the Emmeline Rose page and read it in silence 😉 For more vids go to the vids page 😀
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Vegan Children
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The ‘Pretend you’re not vegan’ game
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More Venus Aqueous coming soon!
Not familiar with Venus? Why not get to know her in episodes 1, 2 and 3 (all on the 8 and up page)? Then you’ll be all caught up by the time episode 4 begins. See you soon 😀
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Story Time #7: What’s Good For The Goose Is Not Good For The Panda
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Recommended Reading: What’s Good For The Goose Is Not Good For The Panda
As soon as I saw this I just had to order a copy! It’s made completely of collage! Lavender Laine has written and illustrated the whole book completely by cutting out bits from old magazines, wrapping paper, food packaging, yarn and buttons! Talk about recycling! Even the copyright page is written in collage! Laine’s story…
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Tongue Twister: Friendly Felix
For more tongue twisters check out the Wacky Verse page, or click here 😀
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Tongue Twister: Vegan Velma
For other tongue twisters, check out the Wacky Verse page, or click here 😀
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What’s In A Name?
Once upon a time there were three humans and their names were Dowatiwant, Dowateewants and Dowatheywant. They did everything together. Dowatiwant was the one who decided what they would do, Dowateewants would copy him and Dowatheywant would copy them. One day Dowatiwant went into the cornershop, followed by Dowateewants and Dowatheywant. Dowatiwant bought a packet…
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Z is for Zoo
Zoo noun Oxford Dictionary definition: zoological garden: public garden or park with collection of animals for exhibition and study. Our definition: Place where wild animals are kept and/or bred in captivity. Zoos are prisons. Prisons in which innocent individuals are kept incarcerated for their whole lives, though they have committed no crime. Elephants, for…
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W is for Winkle
Winkle noun Oxford Dictionary definition: edible sea snail. Our definition: A winkle is a small herbivorous shore-dwelling mollusc with a spiral shell. Winkle is also a common name applied to numerous different species of small, round snails. These are often species of sea snails, but also some small round freshwater snails, and even some land…
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W is for Whiting
Whiting noun Oxford Dictionary definition: small edible sea fish. Our definition: Whiting (Merlangius merlangus) fish are similar in appearance to their larger relatives, cod, haddock, coley and pollack. They have three dorsal fins separated by small gaps, the third fin extending almost to the tail fin. The tail is not forked, having almost a square…
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V is for Vegan
Vegan noun Oxford Dictionary definition: person who does not eat animals or animal products. Our definition: To be vegan means to try to do no harm to all animals, including humans, and the planet on which everyone depends. This means a vegan will do their best to avoid all animal products in their food, clothes…
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U is for unethical, unprincipled, unkind ….
Killing animals is unethical, It’s unprincipled and unkind. Eating meat is unhealthy, It’s unsavoury and unsound. *** So why do humans do it, This unsightly unwholesome crime? It’s unwarrantable, it’s unwarranted And entirely unjustified. The U page is right here, and the whole dictionary is just there 😀
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“I’m not dinner!” The Movie
Originally posted on Violet's Vegan Comics: Well, sort of 😉
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T is for Turkey
Turkey noun Oxford Dictionary definition: 1. large originally American bird bred for food. 2. Its flesh. Our definition: Turkeys are known to exhibit over 20 distinct vocalisations. Including a distinctive gobble, produced by males, which can be heard a mile away. Individual turkeys have unique voices. This is how turkeys recognise each other. Turkeys…
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