What is it about?
This article examines the strategies used to tell the true story of Dindim and João Pereira de Souza for a child audience. Turning the tale into a parable of friendship, some picturebooks unwittingly ameliorate the effects of human-caused environmental catastrophe. In the process, they block awareness of and solutions to problems such as chronic pollution, habitat destruction, species extinction, and climate change.
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Why is it important?
The picturebooks discussed reveal the challenges to environmental education posed by the impetus to uncomplicated narratives and happy endings in children's literature.
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This page is a summary of: Penguin Parables: Picturebooks, Interspecies Companionship, and Ecoliteracy, Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2024, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/bkb.2024.a918615.
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