Interview · #92
Empowering Kids Through Vegan Stories: A Chat with Author Tina Newman
Anant chats with Tina Newman, author of the Vivi the Supervegan children’s book series.
Tina created Vivi after her own daughters’ experiences as vegans at a non-vegan school, including wearing stickers to identify their meals. Her books frame compassionate living as a kind of superpower.
She aims to counter what she sees as the normalisation of animal use in schools and media, while keeping the tone child-friendly – planting seeds rather than lecturing.
She recalls a slaughterhouse worker at her book launch who disagreed with parts of the book but called it powerful and thought-provoking, a reaction she hopes will prompt further reflection.