Critical issues related to ecological justice figure prominently in today’s literature for children and young adults, from picture book biographies of Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement, to Jaden Anthony’s graphic novel series Kid Brooklyn, middle readers like Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, and young adult novels like Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves. Real-life child activists such as nine-year-old Ridhima Pandey in India and thousands of schoolchildren across the UK are fighting back and going on strike to save their planet. These real and fictional children embody eco-justice as they transform the politics of climate change and the results of settler colonialism by creating new green movements throughout the world.

The Information School (iSchool) at the University of Washington invites ChLA conference attendees to Washington State, home to twenty-nine federally-recognized tribes and several non-federally-recognized tribes. The University of Washington occupies the land of the Coast Salish people. This land touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Suquamish, Tulalip, and Muckleshoot nations, and this context is essential to our understanding of the Pacific Northwest region.