Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature Roots and Winged Seeds

Melanie Duckworth is an associate professor of English literature at Østfold University College, Norway. Her research interests include Australian literature, contemporary poetry, and ecocriticism, and her research is published in journals including Environmental Humanities, International Research in Children’s Literature, Bookbird, and Australian Literary Studies. Melanie is co-editor of Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature (Routledge 2022).   

Annika Herb is a researcher, writer, and Education Development Lead at the University of Newcastle, Australia, living and working on Awabakal land. Her research interests include children’s and Young Adult literature, gender and sexuality, queer literature, colonial, postcolonial, and Indigenous literature, and she has published research in Westerly, M/C Journal, Girlhood Studies, and Children’s Literature in Education.