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From: Brian Kerr-Jung <bkerrjung>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:56:26 -0400
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Nancy Silverrod <nsilverrod at sfpl.org> wrote:
> While not about the environment per-se, the countryside in the Anne of Green Gables books is practically as important as her friends are to Anne. Byrd Baylor writes movingly about the desert landscape and the interplay of the people and animals who make it their home in "The Desert is Theirs."
>
> Nancy Silverrod, Librarian
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> I just thought of one:
>
> "Girl of the Limberlost" by Gene Stratton-Porter
>
> Free e-book download:
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/125
>
> and here:
>
> http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/StrGirl.html
>
> and other sites.
>
> The Limberlost Swamp plays a big role in the novel. ?It's been quite a while since I've read the book, and I only read it after seeing a television movie (Wonderworks?) adaptation, which was very good (except they gave a name to the character "Bird Woman", calling her Gene Stratton-Porter!)
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I'm finding it difficult to avoid references to environmentalism in kids books. Take the last four I've read:
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame -- The automobile in the story is largely a reference to the speed of modernism and as such represents a threat to 19th century pastoral life. It's also stinky and pollutive. From the 21st century, it looks prophetic.
The Monsters of Morley Manor, Bruce Coville -- This book is all over the place, but one of its themes is the environment. Aliens complain that the earth is such a mess it wouldn't even be worth invading.
Flush, Carl Hiassen--already been mentioned
Anastopsis, Chris Abouzeid -- takes place on a future earth so ravaged that it has changed from blue to "the color of badly mixed paint."
I wasn't looking for eco lit in any of these, except for Flush, but it seems to be everywhere. I suspect this generation will grow up as fearful of global warming as my generation was of all out nuclear war.
We've managed, so far, to avoid the latter. Perhaps the pervasive themes in literature, flim and tv had something to do with that.
Speaking of film, if we're allowed to do that here, has anyone seen Battle for Terra? The trailer looks promising to me, But don't they all?
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:56:26 -0400
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Nancy Silverrod <nsilverrod at sfpl.org> wrote:
> While not about the environment per-se, the countryside in the Anne of Green Gables books is practically as important as her friends are to Anne. Byrd Baylor writes movingly about the desert landscape and the interplay of the people and animals who make it their home in "The Desert is Theirs."
>
> Nancy Silverrod, Librarian
> San Francisco Public Library
> 100 Larkin St.
> San Francisco, CA 94122-4733
> nsilverrod at sfpl.org
> 415-557-4417
>
> Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction. -Francis Picabia, painter and poet (1879-1953)
>
> Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. -Cyril Connolly, critic and editor (1903-1974)
>
> A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood. -Chinese Proverb
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ccbc-net-bounces at lists.education.wisc.edu [mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at lists.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of James Elliott
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:58 PM
> To: PAGOOSE at aol.com
> Cc: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Eco Books
>
> I just thought of one:
>
> "Girl of the Limberlost" by Gene Stratton-Porter
>
> Free e-book download:
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/125
>
> and here:
>
> http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/StrGirl.html
>
> and other sites.
>
> The Limberlost Swamp plays a big role in the novel. ?It's been quite a while since I've read the book, and I only read it after seeing a television movie (Wonderworks?) adaptation, which was very good (except they gave a name to the character "Bird Woman", calling her Gene Stratton-Porter!)
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I'm finding it difficult to avoid references to environmentalism in kids books. Take the last four I've read:
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame -- The automobile in the story is largely a reference to the speed of modernism and as such represents a threat to 19th century pastoral life. It's also stinky and pollutive. From the 21st century, it looks prophetic.
The Monsters of Morley Manor, Bruce Coville -- This book is all over the place, but one of its themes is the environment. Aliens complain that the earth is such a mess it wouldn't even be worth invading.
Flush, Carl Hiassen--already been mentioned
Anastopsis, Chris Abouzeid -- takes place on a future earth so ravaged that it has changed from blue to "the color of badly mixed paint."
I wasn't looking for eco lit in any of these, except for Flush, but it seems to be everywhere. I suspect this generation will grow up as fearful of global warming as my generation was of all out nuclear war.
We've managed, so far, to avoid the latter. Perhaps the pervasive themes in literature, flim and tv had something to do with that.
Speaking of film, if we're allowed to do that here, has anyone seen Battle for Terra? The trailer looks promising to me, But don't they all?
-- Brian Jung http://mrchompchomp.blogspot.comReceived on Thu 04 Jun 2009 07:56:26 AM CDT
