{"id":19903,"date":"2022-09-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=19903"},"modified":"2022-08-26T11:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:29:55","slug":"book-review-bear-boy-and-kind-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/13\/book-review-bear-boy-and-kind-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Bear Boy and Kind Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bearboy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bearboy-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bearboy-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bearboy.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>In the latest issue of <em>Vegan Journal<\/em>, Senior Editor Rissa Miller reviews two books: Bear Boy and Kind Poems. Rissa says, <em>Bear boy <\/em>is a young adult book that details the true story of a teenage boy in California who not only inspires incredible change in a zoo, but also raises a quarter of a million dollars to save two bears and place them in a sanctuary\u2014all before he could drive. It\u2019s a page turner, no matter the reader\u2019s age. You may want to keep a box of tissues nearby, too, just in case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Kind-Poems.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19905\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Kind-Poems-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Kind-Poems-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Kind-Poems.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><em>Kind Poems<\/em> is for literature or animal lovers. This collection of 55 eloquently written free-form poems brings the plight of animals in modern society into the limelight. Poignant and heartfelt writing and evocative imagery offer the readers a chance to re-examine their relationship with animals, the earth, and each other.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2022issue3\/2022_issue3_book_reviews.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2022issue3\/2022_issue3_book_reviews.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to <em>Vegan Journal<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/party\/\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/party\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest issue of Vegan Journal, Senior Editor Rissa Miller reviews two books: Bear Boy and Kind Poems. Rissa says, Bear boy is a young adult book that details the true story of a teenage boy in California who not only inspires incredible change in a zoo, but also raises a quarter of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19906,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19903\/revisions\/19906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}