Common Sense Child Rearing By Thomas Cowan
Common Sense Child Rearing: Unconventional Wisdom for a Nourished Childhood By Thomas Cowan, MD Steiner Books Whose side are you on? That’s the question Tom Cowan asks in […]
Children
A Year Around the Great Oak By Gerda Muller
A Year Around the Great Oak By Gerda Muller Floris Books First published in 1991 under the title Unser Baum, this delightful and colorful picture book is a […]
Beatrice’s Goat By Page McBrier
Beatrice’s Goat By Page McBrier Illustrated by Lori Lohstoeter Atheneum Books for Young Readers This beloved true story takes place in a village in Uganda, where a poor […]
A Fine Dessert By Emily Jenkins
A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat By Emily Jenkins Illustrated by Sophie Blackall Schwartz & Wade This elegantly illustrated picture book highlights a famous […]
Healing The Next Generation
Homeopathic Training Course by Anke Zimmermann We have had many requests to review diet and health courses available to the public. We are pleased to offer this first […]
The Farm Summer 1942 By Donald Hall
The Farm Summer 1942 By Donald Hall, Illustrated by Barry Moser (Dial Books) In the summer of 1942, nine-year-old Peter is sent to New Hampshire to live on […]
Mr. Crum’s Potato Predicament By Anne Renaud
Mr. Crum’s Potato Predicament By Anne Renaud, Illustrated by Felicita Sala Kids Can Press Based on a true story, this fun tale is about George Crum who loved […]
Thunder Cake By Patricia Polacco
Thunder Cake By Patricia Polacco (Penguin Young Readers) Patricia Polacco loves to write stories that draw on events from her childhood. Set on a farm in Michigan on […]
The Gardener By Sarah Stewart
The Gardener By Sarah Stewart Illustrated by David Small Square Fish Lydia Grace Finch must leave her country life and go to live with her cantankerous Uncle Jim, […]
Tops and Bottoms By Janet Stevens
Tops and Bottoms By Janet Stevens Harcourt Brace This humorous picture book is about a lazy Bear who has “lots of money and lots of land” and a […]
Children of the Forest By Elsa Beskow
Children of the Forest By Elsa Beskow Floris Books This is an endearing and fairy-tale-like story of a darling family that lives in the roots of an old […]
Real Food For Happy Kids By Kelly Moeggenborg
Real Food For Happy Kids By Kelly Moeggenborg, Illustrated by Karine Jones Kelly Moeggenborg, of Kelly the Kitchen Kop fame, understands how important it is to reach everyone […]
Make Way For Ducklings
Make Way For Ducklings (Ages 3–8) By Robert McCloskey The Viking Press Robert McCloskey is the well-known author of many beautiful children’s books, and his stories and illustrations […]
Christina Katerina & The Box By Patricia Lee Gauch
Christina Katerina & The Box (Ages 3–8) By Patricia Lee Gauch Illustrated by Doris Burn Astra Publishing House The amazing creativity of a child’s imagination is the theme […]
Farmhouse By Sophie Blackall
Farmhouse (Ages 3–8) By Sophie Blackall Little, Brown & Company Bright and cheerful illustrations immediately capture the reader’s attention in this recently published picture book by Sophie Blackall. […]
Miss Maples Seeds
Miss Maple’s Seeds (Ages 5-8) By Eliza Wheeler Nancy Paulsen Books, Penguin Group This gentle story about the life cycle of seeds, accompanied by Wheeler’s warm and colorful […]
Island Boy By Barbara Cooney
Island Boy (Ages 8-12) By Barbara Cooney Puffin Books, Penguin Group A wholesome family with twelve children moves from the mainland to make their living on a beautiful […]
We Were Tired of Living in a House
We Were Tired of Living in a House (Ages 5-8) By Liesel Mokka Skorpen, Illustrated by Doris Burn Purple House Press A family of six—Dad, Mom and four […]
Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
Ox-Cart Man (Ages 5-12) By Donald Hall Illustrated by Barbara Cooney Puffin Books A New England farm family gathers everything that they have grown, harvested, made and collected […]
Apple Tree Christmas
Apple Tree Christmas (Ages 5-12) By Trinka Hakes Noble Sleeping Bear Press This sweet tale is about a small family that lives in one end of a barn. […]
A Prairie Boy’s Winter by William Kurelek
A Prairie Boy’s Winter (Ages 5-12) By William Kurelek Houghton Mifflin Co. This very endearing picture book is dedicated to “everyone who ever spent a winter on the […]
Glow Kids By Nicholas Kardaras
Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids—and How to Break the Trance By Nicholas Kardaras, PhD St. Martin’s Press Screen Addiction Book The image on the […]
Sleep Tight Farm By Eugenie Doyle
Sleep Tight Farm: A Farm Prepares for Winter By Eugenie Doyle Becca Stadtlander, Illustrator Chronicle Books (Ages: 2-7) This delightful and colorful picture book lays out all the […]
The Bee Tree By Patricia Polacco
The Bee Tree By Patricia Polacco Puffin Books (Ages: 2-7) The book̕s overarching theme is that reading can be full of sweetness and adventure. This is communicated by […]
All the Places to Love By Patricia MacLachlan
All the Places to Love Book by Patricia MacLachlan Mike Wimmer, Illustrator HarperCollins (Ages: 2-7) This picture book encompasses the beauty and simplicity of family life on a […]
Revisioning Food, Farm and Forest
Revisioning Food, Farm and Forest: The Badges of Meadows Bee By Rick Veitch Meadows Bee Farm This comic-book-style book was written to showcase the sustainable agriculture program designed […]
Jaws by Sandra Kahn and Paul Ehrlich
Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic Sandra Kahn and Paul R. Ehrlich Stanford University Press Jaws is not about an epidemic of shark attacks but about the […]
Childbirth Wisdom From The World’s Oldest Societies By Judith Goldsmith
Childbirth Wisdom From The World’s Oldest Societies By Judith Goldsmith Judith Goldsmith researched this wonderful book in the 1970s in the Cal State Long Beach and UC Berkeley […]
What’s Making Our Children Sick? by Michelle Perro and Vincanne Adams
What’s Making Our Children Sick? How Industrial Food Is Causing an Epidemic of Chronic Illness, and What Parents (and Doctors) Can Do About ItBy Michelle Perro and Vincanne […]
Adventures with Jodi
Adventures with Jodi: How One Girl Stopped Migraines and Chronic Pain and Accidentally Improved Her Family’s Health! Jodi Ledley WAPF member Jodi Ledley, from the Hardin County, Ohio, […]
The Pediatrician’s Guide to Feeding Babies & Toddlers by Porto & DiMaggio
The Pediatrician’s Guide to Feeding Babies & Toddlers Anthony F. Porto, MD, MPH & Dian M. DiMaggio, MD Ten Speed Press Many positive book reviews praise The Pediatrician’s […]
Your Baby’s Microbiome by Harman and Wakeford
Your Baby’s Microbiome —The Critical Role of Vaginal Birth and Breastfeeding for Lifelong Health Toni Harman and Alex Wakeford Chelsea Green Publishing Science has begun to realize that […]
50 Human Studies By Jim West
50 Human Studies In Utero, Conducted in Modern China Indicate Extreme Risk for Prenatal Ultrasound: A New Bibliography By Jim West Western medical authorities insist that diagnostic ultrasound […]
Adventures of Andrew Price by Sandrine Love and Mohammed Naser
The Adventures of Andrew Price by Sandrine Love and Mohammad Naser The Adventures of Andrew Price by Sandrine Love and Mohammad Naser Here at WAPF we aim to […]
Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children
The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children Suzanne Gross and Sally Fallon Morell Illustrated by Angela Eisenbart NewTrends Publishing The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children is a beautifully illustrated […]
Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by La Leche League
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, Eighth Edition, published by La Leche League I gave the sixth edition of this book a negative review in the Spring of 2002 […]
Compromised Generation by Beth Lambert
A Compromised Generation: The Epidemic of Chronic Illness in America’s Children By Beth Lambert with Victoria Kobliner Sentient Publications, 2010 Teachers who have been around a few decades […]
Children With Starving Brains by Jaquelyn McCandless
Children with Starving Brains: A Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder By Jaquelyn McCandless, MD Bramble Books, 4th Updated Edition, 2009 Any book about autism will bring […]
Time for New Beginnings by Harold Buttram
A TIME FOR NEW BEGINNINGS – MANUAL FOR FUTURE PARENTS By Harold E. Buttram, M.D. Philosophical Publishing Company Here is a very good resource for any potential or […]
Real Food for Mother and Baby by Nina Planck
Real Food for Mother and Baby The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby’s First Foods By Nina Planck Bloomsbury, 2009 Nina Planck’s landmark book, Real Food: What […]
Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld
Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food By Jessica Seinfeld Collins Living, 2008 Review by Stephanie Brewer As an avid cookbook reader and cook, […]
Healing Our Children by Rami Nagel
Healing Our Children By Rami Nagel Reviewed by Sally Fallon Morell Many of you recognize the name of Rami Nagel as a contributor of articles on sacred foods […]
Truth About Children’s Health by Robert Bernardini
A Thumbs Up Book Review The Truth About Children’s Health: The Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Preventing, and Reversing Disease By Robert Bernardini, MS PRI Publishing, 2003 Review by […]
Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by La Leche League International
A Thumbs Down Book Review The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding By La Leche League International Review by Sally Fallon Now in its sixth edition, The Womanly Art of […]
Healthy Kids by Marilu Henner
A Thumbs Down Book Review Healthy Kids By Marilu Henner Review by Sally Fallon Marilu Henner is an actress who also describes herself as a health pioneer. In […]