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Wild Things: Children`s Culture and Ecocriticism

Today`s children are occupied with activities taking place in settings that are isolated from nature or are simulations of the earth`s natural environment. As a result, unless they receive appropriate nature education, many children may never develop a familiarity with and positive attitudes toward the natural world that are so crucial to its preservation. Wild Things: Children`s Culture and Ecocriticism examines the ways in which literature, media, and other cultural forms for young people address nature, place, and ecology. Studies in children`s culture and ecocriticism have been largely separate enterprises; Wild Things is the first book to conjoin the two fields. 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 Chariotte`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 explorat

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