Berit Westergaard Bjørlo is an Associate Professor at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Her areas of research interest include children’s literature, picturebooks, children’s poetry, ecocriticism, and literature didactics. Her recent publications include her PhD thesis, Ord og bilder på vandring. Bildebøker som gjenskaper dikt og bildekunst. [Wandering words and images. Picturebooks that recreates poems and visual art works]. (University of Bergen), and a chapter entitled Marine Animals in Ted Hughes’s Poetry for Children: Ecocritical Readings of Four Illustrated Poems in N. Goga, L., Guanio-Uluru, B., O. Hallås & A. Nyrnes (Eds.). Ecocritical Perspectives on Children’s Texts and Cultures: Nordic Dialogues. (Palgrave Macmillan). She has co-authored a chapter entitled with Nina Goga entitled Bildebokanalyse [Picturebook analysis] in R. Neteland & L.I. Aa (Eds.), Master i norsk. Metodeboka 1 (Universitetsforlaget).