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9780814330289

Wild Things

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  • ISBN13:

    9780814330289

  • ISBN10:

    0814330282

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-05-01
  • Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Into the Wild
Sidney I. Dobrin and Kenneth B. Kidd
1(15)
1. "He Made Us Very Much Like the Flowers": Human/Nature in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Children's Literature
Maude Hines
16(15)
2. "Foundation-Stones": Natural History for Children in St. Nicholas Magazine
Kaye Adkins
31(17)
3. Somewhere outside the Forest: Ecological Ambivalence in Neverland from The Little White Bird to Hook
M. Lynn Byrd
48(23)
4. The Wild and Wild Animal Characters in the Ecofeminist Novels of Beatrix Potter and Gene Stratton-Porter
Marion W. Copeland
71(11)
5. Arthur Ransome and the Conservation of the English Lakes
Karen Welberry
82(19)
6. E.B. White's Paean to Life: The Environmental Imagination of Charlotte's Web
Lynn Overholt Wake
101(14)
7. ecoLewis: Conservationism and Anticolonialism in The Chronicles of Narnia
Nicole M. DuPlessis
115(13)
8. Playing Seriously with Dr. Seuss: A Pedagogical Response to The Lorax
Bob Henderson, Merle Kennedy, and Chuck Chamberlin
128(21)
9. "The World around Them": The Changing Depiction of Nature in Owl Magazine
Tara L. Holton and Tim B. Rogers
149(19)
10. Still Putting Out "Fires": Ranger Rick and Animal/Human Stewardship
Arlene Plevin
168(15)
11. Environmental Justice Children's Literature: Depicting, Defending, and Celebrating Trees and Birds, Colors and People
Kamala Platt
183(15)
12. (Em)bracing Icy Mothers: Ideology, Identity, and Environment in Children's Fantasy
Naomi Wood
198(17)
13. Eco-edu-tainment: The Construction of the Child in Contemporary Environmental Children's Music
Michelle H. Martin
215(17)
14. "It's Not Easy Being Green": Jim Henson, the Muppets, and Ecological Literacy
Sidney I. Dobrin
232(22)
15. Cartoons and Contamination: How the Multinational Kids Help Captain Planet Save Gaia
Susan Jaye Dauer
254(13)
16. Disney of Orlando's Animal Kingdom
Kenneth B. Kidd
267(22)
Contributors 289(6)
Index 295

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