Nature and grief : an ecocritical analysis of grief in children's literature

This study explores the role of nature in three picture books that broach the topics of death, grief, depression, or loss: Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen’s Lifetimes, Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree, and Roni Schotter and Kimberly Bulcken Root’s In the Piney Woods. Using a close reading of both the text...

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Main Author: Lankford, Megan
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23715