Tag Archives: veggie kids

Pleased to meet you

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To be continued ….

Uh oh …

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What’s the rush?

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Watch out for the watcher!

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Private Property

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Reflecto Girl episode 4 continues (see yesterday’s post for the start).  For episodes 1, 2 and 3 go to the 8 years and up shelf 🙂

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vegan comic for children

To be continued ….

If you go down to the woods today …

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Guntotin Goodfernuffink

To the tune of Teddy Bears’ Picnic, All together now 😉

If you go down to the woods today

You’d better not take your gun.

If you go down to the woods today

You won’t have your usual fun.

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For there’s a girl, like no other was

Who’ll follow you there for certain because

Today’s the day Reflecto Girl

Gets some justice!

Reflecto Girl

Reflecto Girl #4: Guntotin Goodfernuffinks coming soon!

If you’ve never met Renée before, check out Reflecto Girl Episode 1, Episode 2 and Episode 3 for the story so far, they’re all on the ‘age 8 and up’ page 😀

Steven the Vegan by Dan Bodenstein and Ron Robrahn

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Steven the Vegan – a picture book by Dan Bodenstein and Ron Robrahn about Steven’s school trip to a farm sanctuary and the questions it naturally inspires from his classmates 😀

V is for Vegan: The ABCs of Being Kind by Ruby Roth

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And we have a winner!

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Thank you to everyone who entered our prize draw to give a home to our cute but nameless bunny.

The winner is Suzie Peron who came up with the name Cornball.

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So let me know your address through our contact form Suzie, Cornball can’t wait to meet you 😀

Name the Bunny!

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rescue rabbit

Rescue rabbits

Rescue rabbits

Lovely rabbits

With natural habits

Need spacious homes

With other rabbits.

If you’ve got love

And space for rabbits,

Don’t pay breeders

Hell no!  Dagnabbit!

So many need homes,

Save rescue rabbits!

At Raystede Animal Welfare Centre in East Sussex they take in around 1500 animals every year who need to be found new homes.  They work hard to make sure that each animal is matched up with the right family to give them the best new chance in life and they provide advice on how to take the best care of the animals.

This is undoubtedly the case for so many animal rescue organisations which is why it’s so important, if we are able to provide a happy home for a companion animal, that we rehome abandoned, neglected, rescued animals rather than buy from breeders and perpetuate the problem.

The chap pictured at the top of this post is, like other rabbits rescued by Raystede, looking for a new home.

He is such a sweetheart and anyone from the UK wishing to adopt him should comment on this post suggesting a name for him.  Then, on Friday, we will put all the suggested names in a box and draw out a winner.  The rescued bunny will be trusted to the loving care of the lucky prize winner to whom he will be promptly delivered 😀

Story Time # 5: Oliver’s Vegetables

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Recommended Reading: Oliver’s Vegetables

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Oliver's Vegetables

This is a brilliant short story by Vivian French with gorgeous, vibrant illustrations by Alison Bartlett.

Oliver's Vegetables

Basically, Oliver’s mum has the common problem of not being able to get Oliver to eat his vegetables.  The only one he will eat is potatoes, in the form of chips.

Oliver's Vegetables

But when he goes to stay with Grandpa and Grandma for a week, everything changes.

Oliver's Vegetables

Grandpa tells him he can have chips if he finds the potatoes in the garden, but while he’s searching, if he finds something else, he has to try it.

Oliver's Vegetables

Highly recommended bedtime (or any other time) reading which will make you hungry.

Borrow it from the library or get your own copy 😀

Sherman & Geynes Episode 2 is here!

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The wait is finally over.  See what these vegan sleuths have found out now.

Hold on to your hats – it could be dastardly!

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Click the pic for Episode 2: In the library with the elastic band.

Not familiar with Sherman and Geynes?  Pop over to the 5 years and up page for episode 1 😀

And they’re back! Tomorrow.

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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 🙂

Make A Jigsaw

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Music:  Lost In Space theme by Apollo 440

Sherman & Geynes #2, Coming Soon!

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Sherman & Geynes, Expert Sleuths

Episode 2:

In the Library with the Elastic Band

coming very soon 😀

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For the story so far, click here

Save The Human!

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Put your feet up and watch A Turtle’s Tale. Lovely.

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Recommended Reading: Hellen Hen

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Hellen Hen

This is a truly beautiful little book for reading to small children by Maria Luisa Arenzana and Antonella Canavese.

Hellen Hen title page

It is full of surreal rhymes and stunning illustrations which convey a peaceful, loving message of compassion and empathy for animals, hens in particular.

Hellen Hen excerpt 1

Hellen Hen excerpt 2

I love the verse on the above page which reads

Our love

means something

which is nothing

in our hands

and it’s everything

in the world.

I took this to mean that it’s no good just to say we love animals and feel we love animals unless we put that love into practice in the world by living a compassionate life.

A truly beautiful, dreamy book which I’m sure would delight small children.  It’s available on Amazon and, if you want one, could be with you in a few short days 🙂

Violet’s Anagram #3

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Can you get it before Miranda does? 😉

Life-Giving Force

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pop crackle

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.

sup and slurp

Violet’s Anagram #2

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This one’s trickier.  Can you unscramble it faster than Miranda? 😀

Violet’s Anagram #1

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Can you solve it quicker than Miranda?

No Cheese Please

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M is for Mackerel

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Mackerel    noun

Oxford Dictionary definition:  Edible sea fish.

Our definition:  The Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) is a beautifully streamlined, fast-swimming fish. It has silver underparts and metallic green and blue upper parts with irregular bands along the back.

Click the Mms for the rest of the M Words

Click the Mms for the rest of the M Words

And check out the Vegan Dictionary in the sidebar for words beginning with other letters, defined in a way that doesn’t normalise animal exploitation and degradation.

Postcards

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We have just had some colourful postcards printed and would like to share them.

We slip them into library books and books in second-hand shops (as if they were forgotten bookmarks) in the hope that someone will find them and be intrigued enough to look at the website.

It’s quiet, easy, pleasant activism and who knows where it might lead?

The trick is not to get over enthusiastic and put too many in one place in one go.  If a staff member spots them they will probably just throw them away, and may even check for more in other books.  But if the occasional one is found by a library user, they might enjoy it, keep it as a bookmark, and one day be curious enough to visit us here.

So, we thought it would be doubly exciting if we could get these out and about in other places around the country, even around the world, and if you’d like to join in you’d be more than welcome.

We have 500 of these babies in our possession and would be glad to send a few to anyone who contacts us asking for some.  So let us know – are you feeling sneaky? 😀

Think To Question

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we need cows' milk for calcium

It’s right to listen to teachers

When they tell a new fact to you,

But still you can keep an open mind

To consider if it’s true.

we need to eat meat for protein

They say it is because they think it is,

But sometimes they’re mistaken.

Someone told them a long time ago

And they didn’t think to question.

humans are herbivores

Story Time #4: Why are you a vegan?

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Vegan Story Time #3: Edmund’s Lunch

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You can find Edmund’s Lunch on the 2 years and up page 🙂

F is for Falcon

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F is for falcon

Falcon    noun

Oxford Dictionary definition:  Small hawk trained to hunt.

Our definition:  A falcon is any one of 37 species of raptor in the genus Falco, widely distributed on all continents of the world except Antarctica.

Adult falcons have thin tapered wings, which enable them to fly at high speed and to change direction rapidly.  Fledgling falcons, in their first year of flying, have longer flight feathers, which makes their configuration more like that of a general-purpose bird such as a broadwing.  This makes it easier to fly while learning the exceptional skills required to be effective hunters as adults.

Peregrine falcons have been recorded diving at speeds of 200 miles per hour (320 km/h), making them the fastest-moving creatures on Earth.  Other falcons include the gyrfalcon, lanner falcon, and the merlin.  Some small falcons with long narrow wings are called hobbies, and some which hover while hunting are called kestrels.

As is the case with many birds of prey, falcons have exceptional powers of vision; the visual acuity of one species has been measured at 2.6 times that of a normal human.

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Click on the pic for the F page of our vegan dictionary, or see the link in the sidebar to your right

Click on the pic for the F page of our vegan dictionary, or see the link in the sidebar to your right

The Bamboo Toothbrush Puppet Show

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You can read I’ve got a bamboo toothbrush in Why are you a vegan? and other wacky verse for kids  or here where you’ll also find links to how to get your own bamboo toothbrush 🙂

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VVeC Productions Presents: Luke Walker and the Hypothetical Question

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Luke Walker film credits

From Why are you a vegan? and other wacky verse for kids

Welcome to Story Time

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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 😉

Vegan Story Time #2: Where are you going Deidra?

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Welcome back to story time 🙂 sit back and relax, we’re going to tell you about the lovely Deidra

From Why are you a vegan? and other wacky verse for kids

‘The King’s Three Sons’ is here!

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vegan fairy tale The King's Three Sons

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

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The King's Three Sons

will be on the shelf tomorrow! 😀

Spider in my shower cap

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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.

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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.

spider in my shower cap

Chickens Are People Just Like Dogs

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Chickens are people

Just like dogs.

They enjoy dust baths

And jumping on logs.

  chickens are people

Chickens will play games

Like ‘chase’ and ‘steal your smalls’.

They’ll splash you in the paddling pool,

Though not keen on fetching balls.

chickens are people

Some of them are gentle, 

Some of them are tough.

Some of them are bossy, 

Some timid and soft as fluff.

  chickens are people

They all have personality

And every one is different.

Just like Rover and Fido and Max

They might be quiet or exuberant.

chickens are people

Introducing Marcus

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modern fairy tale

Click on the pic or find it on the Fairy Tales shelf.

This one’s short and sweet and set in the present day.

We hope you like Marcus and his story 🙂

New Fairy Tale – Coming Soon!

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modern fairy tale

Our new fairy tale, Marcus’s Wishes, will be here very soon!

Tomorrow in fact!

Watch this space 😉

Sherman & Geynes are here at last!

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Finally episode 1 of Sherman & Geynes: Expert Sleuths is safely ensconced on the 5 and up shelf or if you don’t want to go all the way over there, click here

I hope you enjoy it 😀

A few minutes later …

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vegan comic for children

And on a little-known website, three weeks later:

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CLICK TO ENLARGE

And that’s it for Episode 4.

Join Megan & Flos again in Episode 5, some time in the future, when Megan’s dream of space travel comes true 😀

What were you thinking?

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Concludes tomorrow …. probably 😉

What on Earth????

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To be continued ….

Fading Fast

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Can’t Stop

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Creak

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Here we go

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I am Flos

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5 minutes later …

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To be continued ….