Tracking the environment in Australian children’s literature: the Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Awards 1955-2014 Babb, Yeyoung May, McBurnie, Janine and Miller, Kelly K. 2017, Tracking the environment in Australian children’s literature: the Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Awards 1955-2014, Environmental education research, pp. 1-15, doi: 10.1080/13504622.2017.1326020. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Tracking the environment in Australian children’s literature: the Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Awards 1955-2014 Author(s) Babb, Yeyoung May McBurnie, Janine orcid.org/0000-0003-2842-9557 Miller, Kelly K. orcid.org/0000-0003-4360-6232 Journal name Environmental education research Start page 1 End page 15 Total pages 15 Publisher Routledge Place of publication Abingdon, Eng. Publication date 2017-05-11 ISSN 1350-4622 1469-5871 Keyword(s) Children's Book Council of Australia biodiversity children's literature environmental sustainability picture books Summary Popular and accessible before television and the internet, picture bookscapture the context of the time they were created and influence thegenerations of children who consume them. Depictions of the natural world have changed across several generations of picture books as seen in illustrations of all 249 books of an influential collection, the Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Awards shortlists from 1955 to 2014. This study found that natural environments became proportionally less present in picture books over time while depictions of built environments increased. The presence of wild animals and native Australian animals also decreased over time. Sustainability themes and more realistic depictions of wild animals and biodiversity increased over time which reflects a growing ecological or environmental awareness, and diversification of environmental themes in recent picture books of this prominent Collection. Notes In Press Language eng DOI 10.1080/13504622.2017.1326020 Field of Research 1302 Curriculum And Pedagogy 1303 Specialist Studies In Education 0502 Environmental Science And Management Socio Economic Objective 0 Not Applicable HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2017, Informa UK Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30096060 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Life and Environmental Sciences Centre for Integrative Ecology Related Links Link Description Connect to in press version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 12 May 2017, 15:03:16 EST Wed, 17 May 2017, 14:36:29 EST Thu, 18 May 2017, 05:00:32 EST Thu, 18 May 2017, 06:08:15 EST Fri, 19 May 2017, 10:33:59 EST Fri, 19 May 2017, 10:38:51 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 8 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 17 May 2017, 14:36:29 EST

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