Experiencing environment and place through children's literature
Cutter-Mackenzie, AN, Payne, PG & Reid, A (eds) 2011,
Experiencing environment and place through children's
literature, Routledge, New York. ISBN: 9780415672863 Recent
scholarship on children's literature displays a wide variety of
interests in classic and contemporary children's books. While
environmental and ecological concerns have led to an interest in
'ecocriticism', as yet there is little on the significance of
the ecological imagination and experience to both the authors
and readers - young and old - of these texts. This edited
collection brings together a set of original international
research-based chapters to explore the role of children's
literature in learning about environments and places, with a
focus on how children's literature may inform and enrich our
imagination, experiences and responses to environmental
challenges and injustice. Contributions from Australia, Canada,
USA and UK explore the diverse ways in which children's lit