Plants in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Plants in Children's and Young Adult Literature - Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture

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Publisher's Synopsis

From the forests of the tales of the Brothers Grimm to Enid Blyton's The Faraway Tree, from the flowers of Cicely May Barker's fairies to the treehouse in Andy Griffith and Terry Denton's popular 13-Storey Treehouse series, trees and other plants have been enduring features of stories for children and young adults. Plants act as gateways to other worlds, as liminal spaces, as markers of permanence and change, and as metonyms of childhood and adolescence. This anthology is the first compilation devoted entirely to analysis of the representation of plants in children's and young adult literatures, reflecting the recent surge of interest in cultural plant studies within the environmental humanities.

Mapping out and presenting an internationally inclusive view of plant representation in texts for children and young adults, the volume includes contributions examining European, American, Australian, and Asian literatures and contributes to the research fields of ecocriticism, critical plant studies, and the study of children's and young adult literatures.

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Routledge

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Book information

ISBN: 9781032122458
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 809.89282
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 204
Weight: 410g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 12mm