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Vegan Art Supplies
You have to be really careful not to accidently buy something containing animal products when you’re buying art and craft materials but, thanks to an ever increasing number of people like us demanding cruelty-free art supplies, there are more on the market than ever before 😀
The wonderful ARTdiscount store gives us detailed information about which products are vegan-friendly and make it easy to be sure you’re not accidentally hurting anyone with your creative pursuits.
Here is their detailed page, divided into specific sections like ‘vegan watercolour artist’, ‘vegan calligraphy’, ‘vegan sketcher’ and ‘vegan kids’ art materials’, you’ll find everything you could want right there 😀
Now then, I need some ink! Thanks ARTdiscount 😀
“We’re doomed!”
The End 😀
If you missed the beginning you can read the whole story here
And if you like rhyming stories generally, there are more on this page 😀
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“We’re doomed! We’re doomed!” cried a pink panicked pig.
The other was mute in distress.
“Listen to me,” came a voice down a tree,
“I’ll get you both out of this mess.”
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“The answer is simple, you need to be brave,
Keep going, walk on, don’t look back.
The forest will feed you and shelter you too.
You will find that for nothing you’ll lack.”
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So the two little pigs changed direction at last
As they chose to live and be free.
Their salty tears dried on their pink rosy cheeks,
Ever after they lived happily.
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Little Miss Greylag
Little Miss Greylag
Sat on a beanbag
Eating her mint Moo Free.
Along came a rabbit
Who tried hard to grab it
So Miss Greylag went straight home for tea.
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Unnecessary Suffering
My flesh to you is unnecessary,
And my milk’s unnecessary for you,
So if none of these is necessary
Then my suffering’s unnecessary too.
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Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare‘s governing document states:
1.1 The objects of the charity are
(1) To prevent and relieve cruelty to animals and to protect them from UNNECESSARY SUFFERING and to promote and encourage a knowledge and love of animals and of their proper care and treatment.
and yet they serve meat, fish, dairy and eggs in their cafe.
Tell them they’re breaking their own laws!
Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare,
The Broyle, Ringmer,
East Sussex,
BN8 5AJ
Tel: (01825) 840252
info@raystede.org
And don’t forget to sign and share the petition 😀
Thank you 🙂
Sonic Screwdriver
For the story so far click here 🙂
to be continued …. 🙂
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The Final Giveaway: How Many Friends Could A Bibbolybob Make If A Bibbolybob Came To Earth? THE LITTLE EDITION
The fourth and final of our Honestly Books giveaways is very similar to the first – How Many Friends Could A Bibbolybob Make If A Bibbolybob Came To Earth? – but it’s a little one!  It turns out that this early learning title, by Edward Benn and Juliet Mahoney, has been so popular that Honestly Books decided to release a miniature second edition.  Well it’s not that tiny – just about the size of a standard paperback – but it’s not as big as the great big first edition 😀
Anyway, let’s get to the point.  Apart from it’s size, this has everything the first one had: a cute story with cute animal characters, a cute alien visitor and an introduction to numbers for little children.  Look here for our review 🙂
If you would like to win a copy of this dainty little picture book, just comment on this post and you will be entered into Friday’s draw 🙂 It’s your last chance to win so good luck!
For those not lucky enough to win one of these lovely books, of course you can find them all on Amazon 🙂
Giveaway Number 3 Winner!
The lucky winner of our 3rd Honestly Books giveaway, What’s Good For The Goose Is Not Good For The Panda by Lavender Laine, is B Mackela
Congratulations Bill 🙂 Give us your address via our contact form on the About page and we will get the book to you as soon as possible.
There now remains only one more chance to win!  The final book of our Honestly Books stash, the little Bibbolybob book, will go into the draw next week. Look out for Monday’s post to enter 😀
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 😀
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)
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! Â 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! Â Talk about recycling! Even the copyright page is written in collage!
Laine’s story is about a panda called Patty who has woken up hungry but doesn’t know what to eat. Â She meets lots of people willing to share with her but finds that what they’re eating isn’t necessarily her cup of tea.
Each picture is made with different materials so they are all very different, and some are more abstract than others, which will encourage children to make art out of whatever they’ve got lying around.
The story is rhyming, with one verse per page, and every page is a feast for the eyes. Â Children can read it slowly, or have it read to them, while they study the unusual images and try to work out what they are and what they’re made of.
You really feel like you could pick at the paper and peel off the layers – not that you would. Â It just looks so tactile.
The story is absolutely lovely and can be enjoyed again and again.  It makes the point that we are all different, and what’s good for one might not necessarily be good for someone else.  No wonder it is dedicated to the Safer Medicines campaign 🙂
From Honestly Books.  Available on Amazon.
P is for Pig
Free Postcards!
Babs wanted you to know that we’ve got some postcards up for grabs, although they’re disappearing fast!
If you like sending postcards through the mail, or if you like this website and would like to share it with others by leaving them in library books or some such, then drop us a line using the contact form below and tell us your name, address (anywhere in the world) and how many you’d like – up to 24, that’s as many as will fit in the envelope 😉
You are so kind 😀
Now Babs is ready for her close-ups:
Henry David Thoreau
‘One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw materials of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle.’
Henry David Thoreau
from Walden in the chapter named ‘Economy’
And they’re back! Tomorrow.
Well, they will be tomorrow.
Watch this space!
Episode 2: In The Library With The Elastic Band will be on the 5 years and up shelf tomorrow 🙂
Sherman & Geynes #2, Coming Soon!
Sherman & Geynes, Expert Sleuths
Episode 2:
In the Library with the Elastic Band
coming very soon 😀
For the story so far, click here
“Hee Hee” said the cow
“Hee hee” said the cow,
“Woo hoo” said the hen
“Hurrah!” said the sow
And the sheep cheered again.
“He did it!” they cried
         As they skipped and they ran,
         “Farmer’s eyes opened wide,
          And he became vegan!”
And it’s true! Â It’s happening again and again!
Click here for some wonderfully moving true stories of animal farmers who awoke to the reality of what they were doing and completely turned things around 🙂
Life-Giving Force
Pop and crackle,
Fizz and bubble,
The witch stirs her cauldron
On the fire in her hovel.
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She shrieks at the night
It will happen alright,
The life-giving force
Of her potion’s in sight.
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It’s got onions and greens,
Carrots and beans,
There’s garlic and lentils,
She’s hungry and keen
To gobble it up,
From bowl and from cup,
The magic of plants
She’ll slurp and she’ll sup.
The Doctor Said
“He’ll soon be dead,”
The doctor said
As she stood at the end
Of her patient’s bed.
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“He ignored my advice,
Never gave up his vice,
‘Those flesh foods will kill you’
I said more than twice.”
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The nurse shook his head
As he straightened the bed,
“Avoidable suffering,
What a waste,” he said.
Welcome to Story Time
We are having fun making videos of some of our stories being read aloud and have decided to make Story Time a permanent fixture on our site.  So, if you want to be read a story, just click on the link in the sidebar to your right (or the big picture above) and choose a video 🙂  There are only two on there at the moment, but give us time, we’ll keep them coming 😉
‘The King’s Three Sons’ is here!
Click on the pic to read this new short fairy tale
Or find it on the Fairy Tales shelf along with a couple of others 🙂
Another New Fairy Tale
will be on the shelf tomorrow! 😀
Spider in my shower cap
      There’s a spider in my shower cap
And she doesn’t want to go.
She’s determined to hang on,
Whether I shake or whether I blow.
So I guess if it’s that important,
And she really wants to stay,
I don’t mind getting my hair wet.
It looks better on her anyway.
Chickens Are People Just Like Dogs
Chickens are people
Just like dogs.
They enjoy dust baths
And jumping on logs.
  
Chickens will play games
Like ‘chase’ and ‘steal your smalls’.
They’ll splash you in the paddling pool,
Though not keen on fetching balls.
Some of them are gentle,Â
Some of them are tough.
Some of them are bossy,Â
Some timid and soft as fluff.
  
They all have personality
And every one is different.
Just like Rover and Fido and Max
They might be quiet or exuberant.
C is for Crab
Crab   noun
Oxford Dictionary definition:  1.  Shellfish with 10 legs  2.  This as food
Our definition:  1.  Crabs are sentient beings who live in all the world’s oceans, in fresh water, and on land, are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton and have a single pair of claws.  They attract a mate through chemical (pheromones), visual, acoustic or vibratory means. Pheromones are used by most fully aquatic crabs, while terrestrial and semi-terrestrial crabs often use visual signals, such as fiddler crab males waving their large claw to attract females. Crabs are mostly active animals with complex behaviour patterns.  They can communicate by drumming or waving their pincers.  Males will fight to win females or to defend territory.  Fiddler Crabs dig burrows in sand or mud, which they use for resting, hiding, mating and to defend against intruders. Crabs are omnivores, feeding primarily on algae, and taking any other food, including molluscs, worms, other crustaceans, fungi, bacteria and detritus, depending on their availability and the crab species.
2. Â Crabs are boiled alive by humans who want to eat them.
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The Cc page is done now (click on the pic or go to the dictionary in the sidebar).
I’ll be starting on Dd today 😀
From caring comes wisdom
“‘From caring comes courage.’ Â We might add that from it also comes wisdom. Â It’s rather significant, we think, that those who have no compassion have no wisdom. Â Knowledge, yes; cleverness, maybe; wisdom, no. Â A clever mind is not a heart. Â Knowledge doesn’t really care. Â Wisdom does. Â We also consider it significant that cor, the Latin word for “heart”, is the basis for the word courage. Â Piglet put it this way: ‘She isn’t Clever, Kanga isn’t, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it.'”
Benjamin Hoff
The Tao of Pooh
Page 128
3 Days And Counting
You’ve got until midnight Sunday (GMT) to let us know if you want to enter the prize draw to win a copy of Why are you a vegan? and other wacky verse for kids
TICK TOCK 😀
26 Verses of Deidra
Where are you going Deidra? is one of our favourite, and one of the most popular, stories on this site so when we decided to publish a compilation of short stories and rhymes for little ones we really wanted to include it.  Unfortunately the new book – entitled “Why are you a vegan?” And other wacky verse for kids – is full of rhyming stories (of course), and Deidra is not one of those.
So, we made it into one – and here it is, the true-ish story of Deidra the dairy cow, in rhyme, in case you’re interested.
This is how it begins:
Once there was a dairy farm
With fifty lovely cows.
Most of them were black and white
But some of them were brown.
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Gripping stuff I know! 😉
 Where are you going Deidra? – In Rhyme
Look at the time!
Well look at the time!
It flies by so fast!
With chime after chime
The present is past!
So we’d better make the most of it!
How much do you wanna bet there’ll be more veg*ns at the end of 2015 than there were at the beginning? 😉
Happy New Year everybody,
Love from Violet and Miranda
xxx
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