The aim of this thesis is to examine how five works of fiction about anorexia and bulimia have been received in Swedish daily press reviews. The investigation is based on 60 reviews, which are analysed with a qualitative method consisting of close-reading and where a feministic perspective is used. The main question concerns how and to which extent the basis of valuation in the reviews is effected by the fact that the Books describe a primary female world of experiences. The investigation shows, among other things, that many reviewers consider the Books about eating disorders to be too many. They categorize the Books about anorexia and bulimia as a genre of its own and place the Books into the literary system principally by referring to other Books about anorexia and bulimia.

The aim of this masters thesis is to examine how some childrens librarians in public libraries reason about Wahlströms series Books. During the 1970s, there was a discussion about the series Books, and the general meaning was, among other things, that the Books should not be available at libraries. Therefore, we also want to study if the arguments for and against the series Books presented today are any different than those presented in the 1970s. For this examination, two methods have been used. We have done qualitative interviews with nine childrens librarians, and in order to find the arguments presented in the 1970s, we have studied the literature regarding the mentioned discussion.

This work addresses how the book boxes that are shipped to different schools, that don?t havelibraries themselves, from the city library are composed in Karlstad municipality and whatBooks they may contain. A case study is made to find out which Books can be included in theboxes. An interview with staff from Karlstad City Library is made and two different kinds ofbook boxes are analyzed. There is one book box with children Books that have a genderperspective and one with fiction children Books.The Books are analyzed and the conclusion of this work is that it is important to know whatthe children are reading and how Books can influence them.

The aim of this study is to increase the knowledge regarding the selection process of picture Books by pre-school educators. My intention is to find out which criteria educators use to select the Books. I have restricted the study to pre-school educators, because I wish to find out how they work with the selection process and which criteria and considerations are included. I also want to know if the children have influence in the book selection and how the Books get to the pre-school.The study is based on qualitative interviews with educators at a pre-schools in my area as well as relevant publications. The questions the educators were given were semi-structured.

The purpose of this study is to analyze picture Books from a gender perspective. The Books are found in a book box that the libraries send out to preschools. This study is based on the following questions:How are boys and girls portrayed in picture Books?Do the picture Books encourage or discourage the principles of equality found in the Curriculum for the Pre-School and the equality work conducted in the preschools?I performed a qualitative text and picture analysis of 12 picture Books. I used Maria Nikolajeva and Kajsa Wahlströms schedule of typical masculine and feminine qualities and activities when analysing the picture Books.

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to investigate how gender stereotypes appear in Swedish picture Books. The investigation consists of literature studies and the method used is a text ?and picture analysis. By using this method, it allows us to interpret both text and pictures in the Books. It is carried through by consultation of Yvonne Hirdmans theory of how men and women are two different things and that man in this relation constitutes the norm.

This paper attempts to replicate a study from 2009 about users reading habits and the future of e?Books. Due to the increased use of smartphones and tablets since 2009, there is a reason to reasearch if the perception and use of e?Books has changed. The methods used is qualitative interviews complemented with an online questionnaire.

The aim of this paper is to examine how gender roles are described in two children's Books and compare the results against the curriculum Lgr11 's values. The compared Books have different aims though one of the analyzed Books claimed to go against the gender roles and the other one isn?t. The method of analysis is discourse analysis and deconstruction of the text by using Nikolajeva´s (2004) pattern for stereotype gender descriptions and Kåreland´s (2005) analysis of story actions based on gender representations in children's literature. The analysis of the texts shows that there are differences between how the two Books characters are described depending on gender. What emerges is that in one of the Books femininity is valued high but instead it lacks equality between the sexes, while in the second book the main characters are described as equal even though the other characters are described in a stereotypical way.

This thesis analyses how friendship between children is described in four Swedish childrens Books, published in 1995-2001 and recommended in Barnbokstipset, which is used in libraries for recommending Books. Today there are many childrens Books that describe various aspects of childrens everyday lives and these Books can have an influence on the children who read them. But I found that there has not been much research about how friendship is described in childrens Books, although much has been written about the importance of social relationships with peers for childrens lives and development. I analyze the Books one by one with the help of a number of questions and categories that I have constructed beforehand. In the analysis I apply Zick Rubins theory of two different stages in childrens understanding of friendship and William Corsaros theory of interactive space which deals with who is allowed to join in games and friendships and who is not allowed to do so and how this is played out.

Preschool has a long tradition of using picture Books, both as entertainment and as a resource for educational activities. In science there are two main application areas. The first one is science concepts and the second is to teach basic science process skills. These skills, observing, communicating, inferring, classifying, measuring and predicting reflects the methods used by scientists. Picture Books potential to put science concepts and activities that promote the use of science process skills in a meaningful context, recommends using picture Books for this purpose.

The purpose with this essay was to study and analyze how gender roles is represented in six different mathematic Books for children in the third and fourth grade and to see if the Books counteract or reinforces traditional gender roles. It was also to see if the mathematic Books follow the goals in the curriculum. I had four questions that I focused on while analyzing the mathematic Books:What kind of activities does girls and boys like in the exercises in the mathematic Books?What does girls and boys own in the exercises in the mathematic Books?What does the relationships look like between different persons in the mathematic Books?Based on the results from questions 1-3, do these six mathematic Books try to follow the curriculum?The results of this study shows that girls often can be interested in things that usually is seen as either girlish or boyish, while boys mostly is interested in things that is seen as boyish. I got almost the same results when it comes to the second question, girls can buy things that is often seen as either girlish or boyish, while boys mostly buy things that is seen as boyish.

The purpose of this master?s thesis is to gain insights into students? usage and attitudes towards electronic articles and electronic Books and how students feel about a change from print collections to digital collections at Växjö University Library. The main questions are: How do different groups of students use the library collections of electronic articles and electronic Books? What factors influence the usage of the library collections of electronic articles and electronic Books among students? What are the students? experiences of reading electronic Books in comparison with reading print Books? What would different groups of students think if the literature they need for their studies were purchased in electronic form instead of print? To answer the questions a user study was carried out at Växjö university library. A web survey was sent to students that had a library card and an email address registered at the library.

The purpose of this essay is to look at how the depiction of cats is performed in childrens? picture Books. I will analyze eight pictures from four different Books, two from each. The Books are from two different decades: from the 1960s and from the 2000s.My ambition is to see if there are any artistic or cultural differences when comparing the two decades? depictions of cats to each other.

The purpose of this study is to investigate how male and female is produced in the literary children?s literature that is found in a Municipal preschool. My issues are the following:Which sex dominates as a main character in the preschools literary Books?What type of properties is attributed to the characters?What type of clothes is portrayed on the Books characters?I performed a quantitative study of 136 children?s Books. I used Maria Nikolajevas perceptions of stereotypical male and female properties to analyze my empirical data.

The purpose with this qualitative text analysis was to study how the sex roles of children are presented in children's Books published in 2004 in comparison with children's Books published 1972-74. The focus was to find patterns and differences. The study embraces eight Books intended for children aged 5-9.The main results of the study showed that the girls were described to have a greater bent to take care, while the boys in general were more aimed to perform and achieve. In both today's and the Books from the 70´s, the boys were described as aggressive and independent and the girls were often looked upon as princesses by fathers and boys. Violent rowdy behaviour was the essential thing among boys in especially the Books from the 70´s.