Widzi, czuje, opowiada... i naprawia świat : drzewo jako literacki bohater dla młodych odbiorców

Bibliogr. s. 189-190. Nieaktywny numer DOI: 10.23817/filotek.15-11

Nature in the young adult and children’s literature is not just a set of events. It is inextricably woven into the fate of people, observes them, interferes: sometimes helps, admonishes them, allows to better understand the world around. One of such popular characters who actively enter the action is a tree. It communicates important values to human co-heroes and shows how to be useful (Silverstein’s "Gift Tree"). However, this article puts the question what is the special function of books that perform literary vision of the scientific research proving the intelligence of plants. In the novels of Harasimowicz "Mirabelle tree" and Applegate’s "Wish Tree", the tree, drawing wisdom from many years of observations of the reality that changes around it, prompts the reader to reflect on how to fix this not the best world. Literary pictures of trees have a chance to convince young readers that nature knows more than we do. The analysis of literary visions of a tree in selected books for young people proves that such a way of meeting the literature presenting nature as a living, feeling, suffering organism can be of great importance in proecological thinking and ethical approach.