From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012: Vegan is love: Having a heart and taking action Written & illustrated by Ruby Roth North Atlantic Books (c/o Random House (1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019), 2011. 40 pages, hardcover. $16.95. Vegan is Love delves into animal mistreatment at zoos, circuses, marine parks and aquariums–all common destinations for [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012: Behavior of North American Mammals by Mark Elbroch & Kurt Rinehart Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (22 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116), 2011. 374 pages, hardcover. $35.00. “Behavior of North American Mammals,” says the publisher’s flack sheet, “is a guide not for identifying mammals, but to understanding what they do,” including [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2012: Cat Telling Talesby Shirley Rousseau MurphyWilliam Morrow (10 E. 53rd St., New York, NY 10022), 2011.373 pages, hardcover. $19.99. Mysteries don’t top my reading list, but feline sleuth Joe Grey and his crime-solving sidekicks, two scrappy cats named Dulcie and Kit, are entertaining in Shirley Rousseau Murphy’s 18th novel, Cat [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2012: The puppy that came for Christmasby Megan RixPlume Books (c/o Penguin USA, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014), 2011. 246 pages, paperback. $14.95. ___________ The title of The puppy that came for Christmas is both misleading and ungrammatical, implying that the puppy is an inanimate object. The book is [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2012: Kalahari Dream by Chris Mercer & Bev PervanPaperback: <http://amzn.to/vLHjhv>. Download for Kindle: <http://amzn.to/vYlNJk>.Download for iPad and all other eReaders: <http://bit.ly/sFM2Wb>.302 pages, including 100 photos. $9.99. On an overnight stay in Kuruman, South Africa, deep in the Kalahari desert, wildlife enthusiasts Chris Mercer and his wife Bev Pervan asked about land [...]