Aïda Hudson is a lecturer specializing in Children's Literature at the University of Ottawa and co-editor of Windows and Words: A Look at Canadian Children's Literature in English (2003).

Each of the contributors offers a fresh perspective on how descriptions of specific places stimulate children's imaginations. This is a worthy exploration for both those familiar with the literature on this topic and those new to the concepts. Hudson (Univ. of Ottawa) did a fine job in selecting essays that examine the subject from a range of perspectives. -- S. Sugarman, Bennington College -- CHOICE 57, No. 1 (Sept. 2019)

• Introduction - Aïda HudsonPART I: Geographical Imaginaries: The Old World and the New1. Pullman and Imperialism: Navigating the Geographic Imagination in The Golden Compass - Cory Sampson2. Nineteenth-Century British Children's Literature and the North - Colleen M. Franklin3. Envisioning Ireland: Landscape and Longing in Children's Literature - Margot Hillel4. From Vanity to World's Fair: the Landscape of John Bunyan's Allegory in Frances Hodgson Burnett's Two Little Pilgrims' Progress - Shannon Murray5. Old World, New World, Other World: Overcoming Prosaic Landscape with The Golden Pine Cone - Linda Knowles6. Healing Relationships with the Natural Environment by Reclaiming Indigenous Space in Aaron Paquette's Lightfinder - Petra FachingerINTERLUDE7. History, Hills, and Lowlands: In Conversation with Janet Lunn - Aïda HudsonPART II: Gardens and Green Places8. How Does Your Garden Grow? The Eco-Imaginative Space of the Garden in Contemporary Children's Picture Books - Melissa Li Sheung Ying9. Into the (Not So) Wild: Nature Without and Within in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows - Alan WestINTERLUDE10. Earth, Sea and Sky Writing in Becca at Sea - Deirdre F. BakerPART III: Fantasy Worlds and Re-enchantment11. The Imaginary North in Eileen Kernaghan's The Snow Queen - Joanne Findon12. Camping Out on the Quest: the Landscape of Boredom in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Sarah Fiona Winters13. Sky Sailing: Steampunk's Re-enchantment of Flight - Christine Bolus-Reichert14. Mythic Re-Enchantment: The Imaginative Geography of Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet - Monika HilderPART IV: Space and Gender15. Female Places in Earthsea - Peter Hynes16. Dancing and Hinting at Worlds in Theatre for Young Audiences - Heather Fitzsimmons FreyPOSTLUDE17. Following the Path of the Unconscious in the Owen Skye Books, and Others - Alan CumynWorks CitedContributorsIndex

Aïda Hudson is a lecturer specializing in Children's Literature at the University of Ottawa and co-editor of Windows and Words: A Look at Canadian Children's Literature in English (2003).

Each of the contributors offers a fresh perspective on how descriptions of specific places stimulate children's imaginations. This is a worthy exploration for both those familiar with the literature on this topic and those new to the concepts. Hudson (Univ. of Ottawa) did a fine job in selecting essays that examine the subject from a range of perspectives. -- S. Sugarman, Bennington College -- CHOICE 57, No. 1 (Sept. 2019)

• Introduction - Aïda HudsonPART I: Geographical Imaginaries: The Old World and the New1. Pullman and Imperialism: Navigating the Geographic Imagination in The Golden Compass - Cory Sampson2. Nineteenth-Century British Children's Literature and the North - Colleen M. Franklin3. Envisioning Ireland: Landscape and Longing in Children's Literature - Margot Hillel4. From Vanity to World's Fair: the Landscape of John Bunyan's Allegory in Frances Hodgson Burnett's Two Little Pilgrims' Progress - Shannon Murray5. Old World, New World, Other World: Overcoming Prosaic Landscape with The Golden Pine Cone - Linda Knowles6. Healing Relationships with the Natural Environment by Reclaiming Indigenous Space in Aaron Paquette's Lightfinder - Petra FachingerINTERLUDE7. History, Hills, and Lowlands: In Conversation with Janet Lunn - Aïda HudsonPART II: Gardens and Green Places8. How Does Your Garden Grow? The Eco-Imaginative Space of the Garden in Contemporary Children's Picture Books - Melissa Li Sheung Ying9. Into the (Not So) Wild: Nature Without and Within in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows - Alan WestINTERLUDE10. Earth, Sea and Sky Writing in Becca at Sea - Deirdre F. BakerPART III: Fantasy Worlds and Re-enchantment11. The Imaginary North in Eileen Kernaghan's The Snow Queen - Joanne Findon12. Camping Out on the Quest: the Landscape of Boredom in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Sarah Fiona Winters13. Sky Sailing: Steampunk's Re-enchantment of Flight - Christine Bolus-Reichert14. Mythic Re-Enchantment: The Imaginative Geography of Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet - Monika HilderPART IV: Space and Gender15. Female Places in Earthsea - Peter Hynes16. Dancing and Hinting at Worlds in Theatre for Young Audiences - Heather Fitzsimmons FreyPOSTLUDE17. Following the Path of the Unconscious in the Owen Skye Books, and Others - Alan CumynWorks CitedContributorsIndex

Aïda Hudson is a lecturer specializing in Children's Literature at the University of Ottawa and co-editor of Windows and Words: A Look at Canadian Children's Literature in English (2003).

Each of the contributors offers a fresh perspective on how descriptions of specific places stimulate children's imaginations. This is a worthy exploration for both those familiar with the literature on this topic and those new to the concepts. Hudson (Univ. of Ottawa) did a fine job in selecting essays that examine the subject from a range of perspectives. -- S. Sugarman, Bennington College -- CHOICE 57, No. 1 (Sept. 2019)

• Introduction - Aïda HudsonPART I: Geographical Imaginaries: The Old World and the New1. Pullman and Imperialism: Navigating the Geographic Imagination in The Golden Compass - Cory Sampson2. Nineteenth-Century British Children's Literature and the North - Colleen M. Franklin3. Envisioning Ireland: Landscape and Longing in Children's Literature - Margot Hillel4. From Vanity to World's Fair: the Landscape of John Bunyan's Allegory in Frances Hodgson Burnett's Two Little Pilgrims' Progress - Shannon Murray5. Old World, New World, Other World: Overcoming Prosaic Landscape with The Golden Pine Cone - Linda Knowles6. Healing Relationships with the Natural Environment by Reclaiming Indigenous Space in Aaron Paquette's Lightfinder - Petra FachingerINTERLUDE7. History, Hills, and Lowlands: In Conversation with Janet Lunn - Aïda HudsonPART II: Gardens and Green Places8. How Does Your Garden Grow? The Eco-Imaginative Space of the Garden in Contemporary Children's Picture Books - Melissa Li Sheung Ying9. Into the (Not So) Wild: Nature Without and Within in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows - Alan WestINTERLUDE10. Earth, Sea and Sky Writing in Becca at Sea - Deirdre F. BakerPART III: Fantasy Worlds and Re-enchantment11. The Imaginary North in Eileen Kernaghan's The Snow Queen - Joanne Findon12. Camping Out on the Quest: the Landscape of Boredom in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Sarah Fiona Winters13. Sky Sailing: Steampunk's Re-enchantment of Flight - Christine Bolus-Reichert14. Mythic Re-Enchantment: The Imaginative Geography of Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet - Monika HilderPART IV: Space and Gender15. Female Places in Earthsea - Peter Hynes16. Dancing and Hinting at Worlds in Theatre for Young Audiences - Heather Fitzsimmons FreyPOSTLUDE17. Following the Path of the Unconscious in the Owen Skye Books, and Others - Alan CumynWorks CitedContributorsIndex