Category: Art

  • Sonic Screwdriver

    For the story so far click here 🙂 to be continued …. 🙂 ********************************** vegan, vegetarian, vegan comic, vegan comic for children, children’s story, vegan children, aquariums, animals, animals in captivity, animals for entertainment, marine animals, fish, crustaceans, art, comics, juvenile fiction, watercolour, adventure, children’s adventure story

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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!  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…

  • P is for Pig

    Pig  noun Oxford Dictionary definition:  1. Wild or domesticated animal with broad snout and stout bristly body.  2. colloquial greedy, dirty, obstinate or annoying person. Our definition:   For the rest of the Ps, click the Pps, for the whole dictionary, click here

  • 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…

  • 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 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,      …

  • Life-Giving Force

    Pop and crackle, Fizz and bubble, The witch stirs her cauldron On the fire in her hovel. *** She shrieks at the night It will happen alright, The life-giving force Of her potion’s in sight. *** It’s got onions and greens, Carrots and beans, There’s garlic and lentils, She’s hungry and keen To gobble it…

  • The Doctor Said

    “He’ll soon be dead,” The doctor said As she stood at the end Of her patient’s bed. *** “He ignored my advice, Never gave up his vice, ‘Those flesh foods will kill you’ I said more than twice.” *** The nurse shook his head As he straightened the bed, “Avoidable suffering, What a waste,” he…

  • 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…

  • ‘The King’s Three Sons’ is here!

    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…

  • 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,  Some of them are tough. Some of them are bossy,  Some timid…

  • 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),…

  • From caring comes wisdom

    “‘From caring comes courage.’  We might add that from it also comes wisdom.  It’s rather significant, we think, that those who have no compassion have no wisdom.  Knowledge, yes; cleverness, maybe; wisdom, no.  A clever mind is not a heart.  Knowledge doesn’t really care.  Wisdom does.  We also consider it significant that cor, the Latin…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Ridiculous!

    For the story so far, click here To be continued ….

  • Grandfather?

    To read the story so far click here To be continued ….

  • After all, you can’t please everyone

    For the story so far, click here To be continued ………

  • So the princess made a deal …

    For the story so far click here To be continued ….

  • Ahhh!!!

    For the story so far click here To be continued ….

  • I will not renegotiate!

    For the story so far click here To be continued …

  • That very afternoon …

    For the story so far click here To be continued ….

  • Among the sunflowers

    For the story so far click here To be continued …

  • The Princess Awoke

    For the story so far, click here To be continued … 🙂

  • Deep Sleep

    For the story so far click here Continues tomorrow 😉

  • Incognito

    To read the story so far, click here To be continued …

  • Oh Father!

    Click here for the story so far To be continued tomorrow 🙂

  • The Princess Who Liked To Be Popular

    Story begins tomorrow 🙂

  • In a Fairy Tale World

    “T-wit T-woo,” go the owls, Sc-ratch and dangle, the spiders. The witch is thinking, she frowns, she scowls, New brooms fly by with riders. *** A flickering light, the rising of smoke, From the clearing, through the trees, Gives away the location of quivering folk Around the fire, on their knees. *** In a fairy…

  • Fairy Tales Shelf – Coming Soon!

    A Fairy Tales shelf will be coming soon to the Home Page. Watch this space! 🙂

  • Who said that?

  • Tongue Twisters

    Try saying these 10 times fast! Vegan Velma Viewed a Vase of Vibrant Violets Friendly Felix reFused Forthwith the Foul and Fetid Flesh Foods Vegan Vendors Val and Victor Vend Veg and stuff at Vegan Venues

  • The End ….. for now

    For the whole episode click here That’s all folks! Episode 3 will pick it up from here …. eventually 😉

  • I’ve got a bamboo toothbrush

      I’ve got a bamboo toothbrush, It’s the best one you can own. It’s not as good as mine though, Mine is red and yours is brown **** Yours is red because it’s plastic, You know plastic isn’t good. It is good coz it’s shiny. Yours is dull, it’s made of wood. **** Toothbrushes by…

  • Isn’t it a yucky thing?

    Why would you wear leather? It’s cow skin you know, Or goat skin or calf skin, Or even kangaroo. Why would you want to wear someone else’s skin? Isn’t it a yucky thing to put your body in? Everyone should have the right, if they have no other, To keep their own skin fully attached,…

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  • Brother Eagle, Sister Sky

    This book is absolutely beautiful. Treat yourself to a copy or borrow it from the library – that’s where we found it 🙂

  • Appreciate the little things

    ‘Twas the night before the weekend, And something was in the air. His face looked concerned when he told me, Though he tried to hide his despair. **** “The internet’s stopped working! I don’t know what to do!” To ease his mind by distraction I said, “The hot water’s stopped working too!” **** He reached…

  • Cheep Chirp

    Cheep, chirp, tweet, caw, These sounds we make, and more. Quack, squawk, gobble, cuckoo, We’re saying something worthwhile, twit twoo. **** If you don’t follow, if you don’t know, What we’re saying or why we crow, That doesn’t mean there is no reason For our calls and conversation.

  • The Ravens Watch

    The gamekeeper walks, shotgun in hand, A frown on his face, he litters the land With barrels and bags of game bird feed, With cages and wire, and bodies that bleed. **** The bodies of animals killed by his gun Are hung on the tree, one by one. With hardness of heart, and misery of…

  • Dear Giovanni

    “Dear Giovanni wouldn’t eat a bird.” “He wouldn’t eat a bird?” “No, haven’t you heard? Lovely Giovanni wouldn’t eat a bird, Because he loves them dearly.” **** “Dear Giovanni wouldn’t cook a bird. He wouldn’t cook a bird In his restaurant, take my word! Kind-hearted Giovanni, beloved restauranteur, Wouldn’t cook a bird, no sir!” ****…