Sidney I. Dobrin is associate professor of English and director of Writing Programs at University of Florida. Kenneth B. Kidd is assistant professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale, forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.
Spanning the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, from Peter Pan
and Charlotte's Web to Disney World and Saturday morning
television, Dobrin and Kidd's Wild Things is a cogent and useful
examination of children's literature and culture in the contexts of
ecocriticsm, ecology, and environmentalism. Its scope and substance
will appeal to scholars and teachers at all levels as well as the
general public."--Anne K. Phillips "Kansas State University"
Wild Things: Children's Culture and Ecocritism explores and
analyzes those materials that contribute to the ongoing
environmental education of children. The essays are well organized,
grouped according to period and genre, and cover literature that
ranges from the nineteenth century to the present. Because the
essays in Wild Things are so engaging and diverse, it would be
virtually impossible for anyone to pick up this book and not find
something of interest. The collection is both thought-provoking and
enjoyable, like the children's literature it explores. Not only
does Wild Things stress the importance of early childhood
environmental education, but it also suggests that the sympathy
that we as a society are trying to instill in out children is in
fact already there to some degree.-- "H-Net Reviews"
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