ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the collective process through which it has assembled the thinking through the common worlds of children and animals. It considers some compelling planetary common world ecological inheritances that cannot be ignored and which are the reason for the claim that the common worlds of children and animals are neither pure and innocent nor utopian. The chapter discusses the ways in which animal stories travel between the global and local. Specifically, it looks at the ways in which classic anglophone children's animal stories are implicated within imperial circuits and networks of exchange. The process of thinking through the common worlds of children and animals has been collective and incremental. Animal geographies have shifted attention to the ecological significance of human-animal relations and to questions of method. Proponents of multispecies studies are also championing modes of inquiry that refocus on what is already going on in the world beyond the human and upon the interdependent relations between diverse lifeforms.
