This is a book for children - a picture book - that I came across last week when I bought another book on amazon and it came up on the "people who bought..." so I was curious and wanted to take a look at it. Also for my children's literature course I have to write an essay about a picture book for children and have been looking for one to use and thought this book might be a good one considering the subject matter and the images and the fact that it is approved as a children's book but not full of happy fluffy animals wearing clothes or frolicking in the fields. It's not a book that is designed to indoctrinate children into some weird vegan cult or anything like that. It's a book that would be very useful for children who are interested in the subject or who perhaps already don't want to eat animals or who want to know the meaning of vegan or vegetarian and what those people do and don't eat. It explains about pet animals, and how we treat them differently to other animals, how pigs and cows and chickens are supposed to live and how we, especially thanks to factory farming, prevent them from living natural lives, what happens in the oceans and the number of sea animals that are killed accidentally as a result of trawling etc for specific fish to kill, endangered species, environmental issues etc. I think it's a very good educational book regardless of your feelings on eating animals.
Book reviewed 1 Feb 2010