I, Mediator. Mediation and readers' education by Felipe Munita (review)

Abstract

British author Cicely Mary Barker and relates them to the picturebooks by Swedish author Elsa Beskow. The subject of Lykke GaunioUluru’s contribution is the vegetables in Terry Trenton’s book “The 52-Storey Treehouse’ from the popular “Treehouse’ series. Francesca Arnavas explores eccentric plant species in Lewis Carroll’s “Alice” novels. Melanie Duckworth looks at “trees and mothers” in Australian middle-grade literature. Jose Monfred sheds light on the “Vegetal Modality of Resistance in Children’s Books by/for Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines”, while Tijana Tropin and Ivana Mijić Nemet provide insight into magical plants in Serbian children’s literature, which was previously little known internationally. One of the volume’s great merits is its heterogeneity and the often original subject matter of the essays. Despite their mostly narrow focus, the in-depth explorations undertaken by the contributors are very readable and comprehensible, even without a more detailed knowledge of the works and their context. The volume provides the opportunity to discover something truly new and offer insights that can be applied to other authors, works, literatures, or contexts. It invites readers to develop this little-explored field of research and to engage in more international exchange. An international conference would be desirable. In any case, one can conclude after reading the volume: More, please!