Edward Mooka2024-11-212024-11-212018https://ir.ueab.ac.ke/handle/123456789/265One of the major challenges of the twenty-first century is environmental crisis. A child lives and grows in an environment, which not only influences its development but also provides a child’s needs such as air, water, food, shelter, landscape and natural recreational facilities. It is, therefore, important for a child to learn to respect the environment. This paper uses ecocriticism as a framework to examine Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s children’s books, viz. Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus and Njamba Nene’s Pistol and analyzes how they can educate children and inculcate in them the right attitude towaen-USArticle