Introduction                                                                   

1

Elizabeth Thiel and Alison Waller

Part 1

Picture Books and the Environment: A Lifelong Concern    

7

Michael Foreman

Trashing the Past and Trashing the Future                        

9

Susan Price

Ecology, the Environment and Children’s Literature           

16

Dawn Casey, Tessa Strickland and Janetta Otter Barry, chaired by Peter Hunt

Children’s Books and the Eden Project                            

22

Jo Elworthy and Natascha Biebow

Windows on the World: Picture Books as a Starting Point for Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship                                                                   

30

Sophie Mackay

The Living Link                                                               

38

Ragnhild A. Mørch

Paper – A Key Resource for Bringing Stories to Life          

47

Alison Kennedy

Part 2

Pastoral and Healing: The Image in the Imagination           

53

Roni Natov

The Child in the World: Challenges to Traditional Literary Landscapes in the Young Adult Fiction of Meg Rosoff      

64

Susan Anderson

Eco-citizens: What Can Urban Ecocriticism of Children’s Literature Unearth?                                                       

74

Jenny Bavidge

Steam Powering the Silent Spring: New Ambivalences of Recent Children’s Ecology Literature                                

84

Alice Bell

Ecology and Shamanism in Selected Children’s Fiction     

100

Peter Bramwell

Natural Settings in Thai Children’s Literature: Water, Home and Family in Jane Vejjajiva’s The Happiness of Kati       

108

Preeyaporn Charoenbutra                                                    

Telling Secrets in the City: Narrative Possibility and the Urban Environment                                                        

117

Zetta Elliott

‘Out of the Everywhere into Here’: Romanticism, Ecocriticism and Children’s Literature                             

127

William Gray

Images of the Child Archetype and of Nature as the ‘Great Mother’ in the Works of Selma Lagerlöf, B.B. and Satoru Sato                                                                            

139

Susan Hancock

Running Wild and Ridden: A Short Introduction to Native Ponies and their Wild Habitats in the Work of Allen W. Seaby (1867–1953)                                                       

149

Jenny Kendrick

Lost in the Wilderness: Lapland and Finnish Identity in the Fairy Tales of Zacharias Topelius                                   

165

Toni Lahtinen

More than Human: How Deep is Ecology in Children’s Fiction?                                                                       

177

Melanie Newman

The ‘Pretty, Old Fisher’s Cot’: The Challenges of Mary Shelley’s Maurice for the Ecological History of Children’s Literature                                                                     

187

Malini Roy

Belonging and Wilderness in Australian Children’s Literature                                                                     

203

Katherine E. Russo

Escape into the Outdoors? What Messages Does Literature for Young Children Convey about the Outdoor Environment?                                                               

212

Nick Swarbrick

Victorian Children’s Literature and the Natural World: Parables, Fairy Tales and the Construction of ‘Moral Ecology’                                                                      

222

Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Deep into Nature: Wonderful Underwater Worlds for Land Children                                                                       

248

Stefania Tondo

Is our Future Set in Stone? A Discussion of Michelle Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness                           

258

Jean Webb

The Natural World in Disney Animation                            

268

David Whitley

Presenters’ Biographies                                                  

279

Index

289