This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in
Nordic children's and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with
international classics. It investigates the extent to which texts for
children and young adults reflect current environmental concerns. The
chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: Ethics and Aesthetics,
Landscape, Vegetal, Animal, and Human, and together they explore Nordic
representations and a Nordic conception, or feeling, of nature. The
textual analyses are complemented with the lived experiences of outdoor
learning practices in preschools and schools captured through children's
own statements. The volume highlights the growing influence of
posthumanist theory and the continuing traces of anthropocentric
concerns within contemporary children's literature and culture, and a
non-dualistic understanding of nature-culture interaction is reflected
in the conceptual tool of the volume: The Nature in Culture Matrix.