Letter from the editor

Vegetarian Baby and Child, March-April, 2003

Happy Anniversary to us! Behind the scenes here at VBC, we are celebrating our 4th anniversary. We issued the first 8-page newsletter under the title Vegetarian Baby & Toddler in March 1999. Since then we've grown steadily to become the magazine you hold today, read in 23 countries around the world. We continue to strive to bring you a wide variety of issue related to raising vegetarian children in today's world, from babies to teens, thinking-about-going-veg to strictly vegan. We've made many changes during this time in the hope of better meeting the needs of our diverse community: we've added regular columnists, expanded the number of recipes, included articles about and by veg teens, and finally, revamped our layout. We hope you like the new look!

In this issue, you'll find an interview with Ann Bradley, author of the popular children's book Cows are Vegetarian, a wonderful reminder of why trees are so special in "Trees: A Vital & Beautiful Part of the Planet," and some terrific ethnic recipes for children in Amy O'Neill Houck's regular food column. Speaking of food, Joanne Stepaniak and Vesanto Melina allowed us to reprint some delicious, kid-pleasing recipes from their new book, Raising Vegetarian Children. Look for the review in the May/June issue.

Also coming in 2003, we will have features on raw foods for kids, food allergies, alternative schooling, vaccines, traveling with your veg kids, terrific interviews, and so much more. Stay tuned!