What is child, nature and a book

Well....gee...I guess I believe a child and nature can have a variety of meanings.  First I can see nature as the outdoors, but also as a state of being.  I have been asked the question "What is your nature" many different times in my life.  It is a hard question for me to answer.  What is it that drives me?  What makes me react to certain things?  That could be a definition of nature.  Now for child, what is a child?  A child of course could be a child but I also buy into that child is synonomus to innocence like Wordsworth would argue.  Child can also be a state of being.  A book to me, is a story that is all