Table of 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