Plants in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Preface

Introduction: Plants in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Part I: Botanical Fascinations

Chapter 1 A Relational Poetics of Plant-Human Interactions: Contrasting the Picturebooks of Cicely Mary Barker and Elsa Beskow

Terri Doughty

Chapter 2 Stamens and Pistils in the Same Flower: Queer Posthuman Performativity of Plants in Finnish Fairy Tale "Pessi ja Illusia"

Katri Aholainen

Chapter 3 Aristotle on Plants: Life, Communion, and Wonder

Hallvard J. Fossheim

Part II: Plants in Folklore and Fantasy

Chapter 4 Come into the Garden, Alice: Rude Flowers, Dream-Rushes, Aphasic Woods, and Other Plants in Lewis Carroll's Nonsense Worlds

Francesca Arnavas

Chapter 5 Fern Blossom and Lilibala: Magical Plants in Serbian Children's Fantasy Fiction

Tijana Tropin and Ivana Mijic Nemet

Chapter 6 Vegetal Magic: Agnieszka's Journey to the Understanding of the Vegetal Other in Naomi Novik's Uprooted

Monika Rusvai

Part III: Arboreal Embraces

Chapter 7 Arboreal and Maternal Desires: Trees and Mothers in recent Australian Middle-Grade Fiction

Melanie Duckworth

Chapter 8 Arboreal Entanglements: Childrenforest and Deforestation in Ecopoetry by Children

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Charlotte van Bergen

Chapter 9 "I felt like a tree lost in a storm"-The process of Entangled Knowing, Becoming, and Doing in Beatrice Alemagna's Picturebook Un grande giorno di niente (2016)

Nina Goga

Chapter 10 From Chamomiles to Oaks: Agency and Cultivation of Self-Awareness

Andrea Casals Hill and Alida Mayne-Nicholls

Part IV: Plant Agency and Activism

Chapter 11 Vegetal Individuals and Plant Agency in Twenty-First Century Children's Literature

Anja Hoeing

Chapter 12 Vegetable Violence: The Agency, Personhood, and Rhetorical Role of Vegetables in Andy Griffiths' and Terry Denton's The 52-Storey Treehouse

Lykke Guanio-Uluru

Chapter 13 The Vegetal Modality of Resistance in Children's Books by/for Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines

Jose Monfred C. Sy

Jose Monfred C. Sy