Research Catalog

Title

Wild things : children's culture and ecocriticism / edited by Sidney I. Dobrin and Kenneth B. Kidd.

Publication

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Dobrin, Sidney I., 1967-
• Kidd, Kenneth B.

Description

ix, 308 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The book provides scholars and teachers with in-depth discussion of particular texts as well as larger historical patterns and theoretical paradigms. Essays focus on classic literary works such as Charlotte's Web and The Lorax as well as series fiction, nature magazines, environmental music and videos, the Muppets and other Jim Henson productions, and Disney's latest theme park, Animal Kingdom. Affording the reader a return to the wild places of childhood--both real and imagined--Wild Things is a first-class exploration of the dimensions used to teach children about ecological systems and the natural world that surrounds them." -- Google books

Series Statement

Landscapes of childhood

Uniform Title

Landscapes of childhood.

Subject

• Universidad Sergio Arboleda
• Children's literature, English > History and criticism
• Nature in literature
• Children > Books and reading > English-speaking countries
• Children's literature, American > History and criticism
• Conservation of natural resources in literature
• Environmental protection in literature
• Wilderness areas in literature
• Landscapes in literature
• Ecology in literature
• Ecocriticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

'He made us very much like the flowers' : human/nature in nineteenth-century Anglo-American children's literature / Maude Hines -- 'Foundation stones' : natural history for children in St. Nicholas magazine / Kaye Adkins -- Somewhere outside the forest : ecological ambivalence in Neverland from The little white bird to Hook / M. Lynn Byrd -- The wild and wild animal characters in the ecofeminist novels of Beatrix Potter and Gene Stratton-Potter / Marion W. Copeland -- Arthur Ransome and the conservation of the English lakes / Karen Welberry -- E.B. White's paean to life : the environmental imagination of Charlotte's web / Lynn Overholt Wake -- EcoLewis : conservation and anticolonialism in The chronicles of Narnia / Nicole M. DuPluss -- Playing seriously with Dr. Seuss : a pedagogical response to The Lorax / Bob Henderson, Merle Kennedy, and Chuck Chamberlin -- 'The world around them' : the changing depiction of nature in Owl magazine / Tara L. Holton and Tim B. Rogers -- Still putting out 'fires' : Ranger Rick and animal/human stewardship / Arlene Plevin -- Environmental justice children's literature : depicting, defending, and celebrating trees and birds, colors and people / Kamala Platt -- (Em)bracing icy mothers : ideology, identity, and environment in children's fantasy / Naomi Wood -- Eco-edu-tainment : the construction of the child in contemporary environmental children's music / Michelle H. Martin -- 'It's not easy being green' : Jim Henson, the Muppets, and ecological literacy / Sidney I. Dobrinn -- Cartoons and contamination : how the multinational kids help Captain Planet save Gaia / Susan Jaye Dauer -- Disney of Orlando's animal kingdom / Kenneth B. Kidd.

ISBN

• 0814330274 (cloth)
• 0814330282 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003028060

OCLC

• 54001323
• SCSB-11599960

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library