Young Witches and Nature in Recent Children's Visual Texts.

This article examines the portrayal of young witches in three recent children’s visual texts—Phoebe Wahl’s *Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest* (2021), Kat Leyh’s *Snapdragon* (2020), and Wendy Xu’s *Tidesong* (2021)—highlighting an emerging trend that aligns these characters with feminist post-humanist and ecocritical perspectives on human–nature relationships. The texts depict young witches as figures who recognize and respect the agency and subjectivity of wild animals and the environment, illustrating human accountability and interconnection with nature across forest, urban, and aquatic settings. Drawing on Donna Haraway’s posthumanist theory and Lawrence Buell’s ecocritical framework, the article argues that these narratives challenge traditional nature–culture divides by emphasizing coexistence, mutual transformation, and ethical entanglement between humans and nonhumans. The young witches’ experiences model a post-humanist ethic for children, fostering awareness of environmental interdependence and the complexities of living in the contemporary Chthulucene era.