What is it about?
The essay seeks to show to what extent children's eco-literature promotes nature education without directly addressing the consequences of environmental disaster. To this end, it examines five salmon-themed picture books published since 2000 and one older work, a Canadian classic, published in 1978.
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Why is it important?
The essay is important partly because it indicates the impossibility of children's environmental literature, for the salmon-themed picture books studied tend to avoid confronting the very crisis affecting the west-coast fishery that inspired their writing. In so doing, these works minimize the effects of anthropogenic environmental change and mute the possibilities for collective environmental activism. The essay is also important because it shows how Indigenous authors and illustrators provide a model for juvenile environmental justice literature.
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This page is a summary of: OUP accepted manuscript, ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, January 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/isle/isaa196.
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