They help illustrate how all animals-including pigs and chickens-are individuals and have personalities, emotions, and are deserving of love. These beautifully illustrated animal rescue stories make a great addition to a vegan kids book collection. Sprig The Rescue Pig & Gwen the Rescue Hen This book illustrates how to teach other kids that it’s far more fun to be kind to bugs, watch insects instead of stomping on them, and collect pictures of them instead of catching them in nets. This book is the perfect sweet and fun way to show children why bugs deserve compassion too. Teaching kindness to all creatures can be challenging for parents, especially when little ones play with other kids who model unkind behaviors. But the sweet story, which takes place in a Natural History Museum, stars a little girl who loves dinosaurs and a very big, very strong, very vegetarian T-Rex! Junebug It’s not a specifically vegan book, so it’s a great read whether you identify as a herbivore, omnivore, or anywhere in between. This fantastic kids book is our top pick for kids bookshelves.

Interestingly, a few of our top picks are not specifically vegan books and are not even written by vegan authors, but they’re loved in homes of all types of eaters, and carry special significance to vegan parents and children. Here are our top picks, chosen for the beautiful high-quality artwork, the friendly approachable message with concepts that don’t get too dark, and a positive ethical takeaway. But as a team of moms and parents here at World of Vegan, we definitely have our favorites. Top 5 Vegan Kids BooksĪs you’ll see below, there is an ever-growing collection of vegan kids books coming to life. Now more than ever we need to teach our little ones that compassion and kindness go a long way, and what better way to do this than through precious reading time.

Today, there are new vegan children’s books published every year and there are more vegan children’s books than ever before. Parents were left to their own devices to try and navigate these topics with their kids. Scroll back just a decade and there were virtually zero kids books written specifically for vegan kids. These are exciting times we’re living in. Whether you’re a conscious parent looking for children’s books to read to your own little one(s), or you’re searching for compassionate books to gift to the vegan kids or young people in your life, we’ve got you covered! We’re so excited to share this comprehensive guide to compassionate, kind, animal-friendly, and vegan kids books.

Gwen the Rescue Hen by Leslie Crawford