Plants in Children's and Young Adult Literature - Paperback

by Melanie Duckworth (Editor), Lykke Guanio-Uluru (Editor)

This lively collection, the first of its kind, maps out and analyses the diverse representation of plants in children's and YA literatures internationally, from the perspective of the rapidly expanding field of cultural plant studies.

Author Biography

Melanie Duckworth is Associate Professor of English Literature at Østfold University College, Norway, where she teaches British, postcolonial, and children's literature. Her research interests include Australian literature, plant studies, children's literature, and ecocriticism, and she has published on Australian historical children's fiction, Australian literature, ecofeminism, and contemporary poetry.

Lykke Guanio-Uluru is Professor of Literature at Western Norway University and researches literature and ethics, particularly plant studies, ecocriticism, fantasy, and game studies. She is the author of Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature (2015) and multiple research articles, and co-editor of Ecocritical Perspectives on Children's Texts and Cultures: Nordic Dialogues (2018).