From Eden to Suburbia: Perspectives on the Natural Word in Children's Literature

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Books with focus on natural world are written for young readers with different aims. But broadly speaking,in the children's literature, there are three ideological views of the environment. The first perspective relies on promoting the domination of nature, the second perspective relies on improving the attitude of care and understanding of the natural world and awareness of environmental issues, and the third perspective relies on the nature-centered nature and depends on ecology. Most children's books dealing with nature or ecology are in the second perspective, which will be the focus of our discussion in this article

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