ABSTRACT
The final chapter examines the newest genre of Antarctic literature for children: animal picturebooks. Antarctic picturebooks offer an introduction to the continent for the youngest readers. This chapter explores how these texts offer a radically different perspective on the Antarctic, focusing on the landscape’s role as a home for animal communities, and highlighting environmental messages for child readers. The posthumanist and ecofeminist ethic evident in some of the texts is explored. The ‘brink-time’ chronotope is introduced to explore the alternative time-space of the environmentally motivated picturebooks, and perceptual scaling is introduced as a methodology for analysing landscape representation in visual texts.
