The world eco-fiction series travels the planet exploring fictional stories dealing with very real climate-change and other environmental concerns. If you like this series, check out our article at Medium, “Around the World in 80 Books: A Guide to Ecological … Continue reading →
In the wake of our newest spotlight series: Turning the Tide: The Youngest Generation, I was so happy to read Todd Mitchell’s fantastic children’s book–for ages nine and up–The Last Panther (Penguin Random House, 2019). Todd and I talked about … Continue reading →
Turning the Tide: The Youngest Generation New Spotlight Series Children’s bookshelf | YA/teen bookshelf | Book reviews | Spotlights | Teacher links This month’s spotlight: Eliot Schrefer’s Endangered, reviewed by Kimberly Christensen, and an interview with Todd Mitchell, author of … Continue reading →
Please check out this survey, participate, and share with friends, family, and colleagues. I am looking for minimally 200 participants who love to read books (world fiction); some interest in ecofiction is helpful. The survey is here if you have … Continue reading →
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but as a perspective that governs the interpretation of experience. In this way, it is faithful … Continue reading →
Affiliates Artists & Climate Change (AACC) | Annis Pratt | Climate Cultures | Dragonfly Publishing | Stormbird Press September Features ClimateCultures.net: Artist Scarlet Hall reflects on defensiveness as an embodied response to being implicated in patterns of oppression. Using movement improvisation to … Continue reading →
The sea has invaded its boundaries, and its inhabitants reside in a towering structure called the Bombadrome, which hovers above the barren land. Theirs is an artificially equated society; they lead technologically directed lives; they have no memory of the … Continue reading →
Endangered by Eliot Schrefer Young adult fiction Fourteen-year-old Congolese American Sophie is set to spend the summer in the Congo with her mother, who runs a sanctuary for bonobos. Sophie arrives with mixed feelings. Although she spent her young childhood … Continue reading →
A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, … Continue reading →
In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he’s told there’s something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of … Continue reading →
Awakening Worlds is a coming of age novel with contemporary Gothic themes and elements of magical realism, a must-read for anyone who loves otherworldly fantasy. When Roselyn, daughter of the universe, learns humanity’s growing disregard for Earth’s health is putting … Continue reading →
