The purpose of this study was to find out how gender roles are described in two popular children?s detective stories, one of them written in 2002 and the other in 1946, to be able to compare the two. In order to do this, I used a qualitative research method in which I read and analyzed the text and illustrations of the Books out of a gender perspective.I used gender theories describing how stereotypical gender roles are displayed, and these theories were later associated with the Books I studied. I also used previous research concerning gender roles in other children's Books in order to compare those results with my own.After having read, analyzed and compared the two Books, I found vast resemblances between them, but also certain differences. However, it is obvious that the gender roles in both Books for the most part are traditional.

This essay is a qualitative content analysis of Flickornas julbok andPojkarnas julbok from 1915/1916 to 1920 and from 1966 to 1970. Mainfocus is the representations of gender that is produced in the Books, and howthe ideal of the girl and the ideal of the boy is described.The result shows that the girl is undergoing a change of personality. The idealimage of the girl develops from caring, helpful, compassionate, and diligent,to become independent and brave. The Ideal for the boy in the Books, bothfrom the 1910s and 1960s, is described as adventurous, courageous, curious,independent, sensible, strong and loyal. In the 1960s Books the girl and theboy are described with similar characteristics, but the girl is also expected tobe cute while boy is expected to be technical and knowledgeable.

This Master's thesis examines some aspects of children's Books for 9-12 year olds, and the children's Books market, from a gender perspective. The main objective is to make a gender analysis of attitudes among children and other agents in the book market towards children's Books of different qualities. Children's reflections on gender roles in the Books and the importance of gender aspects for publishers in the field, are investigated. A combination of methods are used, including literary analyses, surveys of publication lists of the BTJ group Bibliotekstjänst interviews with children and questionnaires sent to children as well as to Swedish publishers of children's Books. The analysis of children's Books clearly shows that images of gender roles vary in different kinds of Books which supports theories of gendered literature.

The purpose of this study was to find out how gender roles are described in two popular children?s detective stories, one of them written in 2002 and the other in 1946, to be able to compare the two. In order to do this, I used a qualitative research method in which I read and analyzed the text and illustrations of the Books out of a gender perspective.I used gender theories describing how stereotypical gender roles are displayed, and these theories were later associated with the Books I studied. I also used previous research concerning gender roles in other children's Books in order to compare those results with my own.After having read, analyzed and compared the two Books, I found vast resemblances between them, but also certain differences. However, it is obvious that the gender roles in both Books for the most part are traditional.

Conversing about Books at A-level - a qualitative study on six teachers experience from conversing about Books.

The aim of this thesis is to analyze children?s picture Books regarding whether and in what form gender stereotypes can be seen in these. The purpose is also to evaluate whether the findings correlate to the different regulatory documents libraries have to abide to.       The study comprises five Books, who are part of a selection of Books especially chosen by Uppsala City Library to be used by primary school children aged 6-9. The method used is the study of text as well as illustrations, as the theory of this thesis is that the two cannot be separated, but has to be seen a unit. Other theories used in the analysis include Nikolajeva?s schedule of male/female properties and theories on gender.      The result of the study shows that gender stereotypes are in majority regarding the characters in the Books, but that the opposite also exists.

The purpose of this study is to examine how women?s reading of the Harry Potter Books can be understood on the basis of gender theory and reader-response criticism. The empirical data is gathered through qualitative interviews with six female Harry Potter readers between the age of 21 and 35, and is analyzed through several theories regarding gender and reading. The results show that the readers are critical towards many aspects of the Books, especially when it comes to the stereotyped depiction of women and men. The Books are said to reproduce the gender dichotomy, the gender hierarchy and the heteronormativity in society.

The aim of this study is to look at censorship and attempted censorship of Books about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual (GLBT) people in public libraries in the USA. People from the public can submit formal challenges to a book at the library when they find the material offensive which can lead to those Books being taken away from the library shelves. The questions asked are why GLBT- literature is being challenged, and sometimes banned, and how do the libraries deal with the challenges to the Books.It is nowadays the people from the public, rather than the government or the librarians that are behind many cases of removal of Books with homosexual themes. The study presents some of the fictional GLBT- literature that has been cause for much controversy in the USA. All the five examples mentioned are children?s Books concerning GLBT- themes and are among the most challenged Books in American libraries in the past twenty years.

The aim of this study was to investigate how four middle school teachers use and process the contents in read-aloud Books, to stimulate the pupils interest in reading and increase reading comprehension. A qualitative approach was used to collect data, through interviews and observations. The findings show that all of the teachers work with read-aloud Books regularly. The teachers state that read-aloud Books have a positive effect on pupils language, vocabulary, reading comprehension, imagination and ability to reflect. The teachers have three distinctive purposes with read aloud-Books, a moment of relaxation, create an interest in Books and increase the pupils reading comprehension.

In school today pupils come in contact with all kinds of reading Books. Education of Swedish reading development sometimes contain reading Books organized at different levels of difficulty, with different amount of text. The purpose of the different difficulty levels is to give the less skilled readers an easier book and stronger readers a more difficult book. The purpose with this study is to find out if the book which is classified as more difficult, in reality is the most difficult and if the book which is considered to be easier really is. To find answers to these questions I will examine previous researcher?s theories on difficulty levels in reading Books.

The general purpose of this dissertation is to study picture communication in picture Books and it addresses the following questions:What is the illustrator?s role in the process of making a picture book? What communicative qualities do pictures have in picture Books and how do pictures interact with texts? What methods do illustrators use to visualize the meaning of stories in picture Books?A genre analysis, a literature study and an interview of a professional illustrator has been conducted to answer the questions. I found that all objects that make up pictures, the arrangement, colours and shapes contribute to the meaning in diverse ways. Pictures also communicate in a different way than texts. An important difference between pictures and texts in the context of picture Books is that pictures are more open for interpretation.

This thesis consists of a discourse and queer theoretical text and image analysis of school Books in English used in the Swedish upper secondary school.  The whole content of two school Books have been analysed from a norm critical perspective but one chapter in each of them has been analysed more thoroughly than the rest. These two chapters form the major part of the analysis.The thesis? problem formulation and objective derive from a personal experience of being a teacher student and part time teacher in Swedish schools. This experience shows the prevalence of a strong heteronormativity both in the schools? every day life and in the used school Books.

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the situation for eBooksin Swedish public libraries. The background is anincreasing lending of e-Books in public libraries, with anacquisition model formed when e-Books were more of anexperiment in a few libraries. The debate has escalated in therecent years and in this thesis I aim to investigate thelibraries? experience with e-Books and the current pricemodel. The empirical material comes from interviews witheight head of public libraries in the Västra Götaland region.As theoretical background, I have used Michael Buckland?sfour roles of collections and price models from Lee andBoyle.My results show ambivalence with the price model.

The aim of the study is to show how children and adults are described in three picture Books, examining how children and adults are portrayed in text-and-picture narrative and how this has changed over time. We have analysed how the characters in the Books are presented and how the representation of children and adults has changed in our own times.The material for the study consists of three picture Books from different periods, with the focus on how children and adults are described as the common point of departure. The analysed picture Books are: Tomtebobarnen (Beskow 1919), Aja baja, Alfons Åberg! (Bergström 1972) and Snäll (Dahle 2008).We have arrived at the conclusion that a text-and-picture narrative is in very large measure a reflection of the outlook on children, childhood and child rearing at the time when the book was published. The result shows that the greatest change that has happened is that parents? and adults? dominance in the Books has declined over the years, and that children have been given a more prominent role.

The purpose of this paper was to study how the death is described in some Books for children and how the Books may affect the readers. I chose five Books where the leading character was a child who lost a close relative like a parent or a sibling. I asked the book questions like you would do at an interwiew.The main questions were:· What do the children think about the death?· How does the child react when it finds out that a parent or a sibling is dead?· What does the child think about seeing the dead person and how does it react at the funeral?· From what or whom do they find the strength to move on?· What support does the child have from people in the surroundings?· How may the Books affect the readers?The results showed that the Books give you an image close to the reality. The children had different ways to mourn.