Well, if you're ever interested in contemplating more, here are a few samples from the reading list:
The Secret Garden
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Sleeping Beauty (as in the Disney video version)
Weslandia--which is illustrated by BYU graduate Kevin Hawkes, written by Paul Fleishman
I tried to pick out titles that would be more well-known, but I don't recognize many of them. This should be an interesting summer. Cramming 20 books a week in, it seems like.
I think Peter Rabbit would probably be on the mischievous close to nature side, the side that demands that children tame that nature. Weslandia is a great book--you should read it sometime. It's a picture book, so it's a quick read. It's about this outcast kid who discovers a new plant in his backyard, then ends up learning to use it to make clothes, dyes, hats, buildings, food, and eventually an entire civilization. I can just see the guys on this board going gaga over it, "Now why couldn't *I* have had that plant when I was a kid?"