Reading list · 7 books
Plant-based for families and kids
Nutrition guides for pregnancy and early childhood, plus cookbooks and one read-aloud for the table.
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Nutrition
Plant-Based Baby and Toddler (opens Bookshop.org)
Your Complete Guide to Nourishing Your Little One
Alexandra Caspero and Whitney English · 2021
Registered dietitians Alexandra Caspero and Whitney English cover feeding from first foods through age three, with guidance on iron, B12 and other nutrients alongside recipes.
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Nutrition
The Everything Vegan Pregnancy Book (opens Bookshop.org)
Reed Mangels · 2011
Reed Mangels, a registered dietitian with a doctorate, wrote this guide to eating vegan through pregnancy and breastfeeding.
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Nutrition
Becoming Vegan (opens Bookshop.org)
The Complete Reference to Plant-Based Nutrition, Comprehensive Edition
Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina · 2014
Registered dietitians Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina cover every nutrient, life stage and food group in an edition that reads like a reference.
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Nutrition
The Dietitian's Guide to Vegetarian Diets (opens Bookshop.org)
Issues and Applications
Reed Mangels, Virginia Messina and Mark Messina · 2011
Reed Mangels, Virginia Messina and Mark Messina wrote this for clinicians. It covers each life stage, athletes and common conditions, with the research cited.
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Cookbook
Vegan Lunch Box (opens Bookshop.org)
130 Amazing, Animal-Free Lunches Kids and Grown-Ups Will Love
Jennifer McCann · 2008
Jennifer McCann packed lunches for her young son and turned them into a book of about 150 school-friendly ideas.
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Cookbook
Vegan Family Meals (opens Bookshop.org)
Real Food for Everyone
Ann Gentry · 2011
Ann Gentry, founder of the Real Food Daily restaurants, offers recipes intended for a table shared by kids and adults.
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For kids
Charlotte's Web (opens Bookshop.org)
E. B. White · 1952
E. B. White's 1952 novel follows a pig saved from slaughter by a spider, a read-aloud for children who have started asking where bacon comes from.
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More from the shelf
The practical answers, then the daily ones.
These guides answer the questions a vegan kitchen asks once. The morning brief answers the ones the world asks daily: what actually moved veganism forward, quoted and checked. One short read, free.
Free, every morning. No guilt. No preaching.