I have 3 copies of the new book, Thanking the Monkey, to giveaway! If you would like a chance to win a copy, please leave a comment on this post before 10:00 PM (MST) on May 8th. Please only comment once, and be sure to fill in the email field so you can be contacted if you win. This giveaway is open to those in the USA and Canada, and the winner will be chosen by a random number generator. Winners will be contacted by email on May 9th.
About the book:
The animal rights movement has reached a tipping point. No longer a fringe extremist cause, it has become a social concern that leading members of society endorse and young people embrace. From Michael Vick’s dog fighting scandal to the incredible success of the bestselling Skinny Bitch veggie diet book, animal rights issues have hit the headlines—and are being championed by students and senators, pop stars and producers, and actors and activists.
Don’t you want to be part of the conversation? In Thanking the Monkey, Karen Dawn covers pets, fur, fashion, food, animal testing, activism, and more. But as the title playfully suggests, this isn’t like any previous animal rights book. Thanking the Monkey is light on lectures meant to make you feel guilty if you’re not a leather-eschewing vegan. It lets you have fun as you learn about Paul McCartney’s love of lambs and why Prince won’t wear wool. You’ll meet Fall Out Boy’s Andy Hurley and Pete Wentz—and their favorite traveling companion, Hemingway, Pete’s dog. You’ll read why Natalie Portman, Alicia Silverstone, and so many of those skinny but not bitchy actresses won’t eat or wear animals. And you’ll laugh over dozens of cartoons from Dan Piraro’s Bizzaro to other animal-friendly comics.
This fun primer for a smart and socially committed generation delivers some serious surprises in the form of facts and figures about the treatment of animals. Yes, it will shock you with tales of primates still used in animal testing on nicotine or killed for oven cleaner. But it will also let you lighten up and laugh a little as we work out how to do a better job of thanking the monkey.
*this giveaway is now closed. Congrats to numbers 97,41, and 72. *
Count me in!
Sound like an interesting read.
Sounds like a great book!
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Sounds like a great book. I’m a big time animal lover
Id love to have a copy!!
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great book, i’d love to win it!
This looks like a very interesting read. I hope I win it!
I love animals and this looks like an important book in promoting animal rights and welfare.
Looks like a great summer read.
Interesting reading! Would love to hear what those people say!
What a great book!
I read some magazine showing a study about kids who grew up with pets versus those that did not. It showed the a kid with a pet was a much more rounded adult. More compassionate, tolerant of others, etc. For all of us with animals, we know this to be very true
Nice prize! Thanks for the giveaway.
please enter me
I would like to read this.
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would love to be entered!
I’ve never read a book of this type, so this would be interesting!
What a great book-please enter me in the contest. Thanks.
I would love to read this book. It sounds entertaining, but educational. Thanks for the contest!
This will be a suggestion for my book club.
I would LOVE to read this book. We are big animal lovers in our house.
count me in – the kids would enjoy this book
I would love to read this book. We love animals.
This looks like a really enjoyable book. I’d love the chance!
i’d like to have a copy of the book!
My dog is a member of the family and is treated just as good as the humans in our family. She even has a real mattress of her own instead of a doggie bed. I sure hope more people think about the way they treat animal souls.
Looks interesting. Our dogs were beloved members of the family.
Sounds like a great read.
nice!!!!!!!:)