Beasts at bedtime: reading about nature with children --
Doctor Dolittle and the question of reading -- Pastoral stories --
The pastoral promise: and they all lived happily ever after --
The ecology of Pooh -- Peter Rabbit's brutal paradise --
In the garden of earthly delights --
Beyond the pool of darkness: the pastoral roots of Irish stories Wilderness stories. On the Mallard --
Where the wild things always were --
Wild and Grimm fairy tales: wilderness on the margins --
"Gollumgate": Tolkien and Ireland --
"I am in fact a hobbit": Tolkien as environmentalist -- The tin woodman's path of carnage through the Land of Oz --
Hunger and thirst in Suzanne Collins's The hunger games Children on wild islands --
The why and the what of islands --
Archmage Ged, Merlin, and Harry Potter and the training of wizards and witches --
Is L. T. Meade the real author of Enid Blyton's famous five? --
Robinson Crusoe: now here's a cannibalism tale for every child --
On isles benevolent; on isles malevolent Urban stories --
The urban to rural gradient of children's stories: The happy prince --
Antipathy to urban life in nursery rhymes --
Urban decay: R. Crumb in the nursery --
The escape artist: Calvin and Hobbes and the suburban idyll --
Babar: elephant and urban adapter Learning to care --
Caring for the rose: environmental literacy and Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Tthe little prince --
What then should we do? the Lorax in the twenty-first century Good night, sleep tight --
