The purpose for this Masters thesis is to describe childrens librarians work in supplying literature to children with emphasis on easy-reader materials. Our main questions are: · What do librarians believe characterizes an easy-reader book, and what do they base their decision on when classifying a book as easy-to-read? · How have the libraries in our study solved the hands-on difficulties associated with easy readers childrens literature? · Which factors do librarians consider to be important when supplying literature to children that are not used to reading or are not good readers? The theories we have used are Aidan Chambers Reading Circle and Karner Smidts view on the librarians professional roles when supplying literature. We have used a case study method, which means that we have gathered information through observation, objective papers and interviews. This has been done at six libraries.

The purpose of this Master's thesis is to make suggestions as to how librarians can promote young reluctant readers to help them find the joy of reading. We want to show how the comprehension of these children and adolescents can be translated into action in the librarians work with reading promotion.Our main questions are:? What attitudes do the librarians find that children and adolescents, ages 9-15 with reluctance to read, have towards reading?? What do public- and school librarians do to stimulate children and adolescents, ages 9-15 that are reluctant to read, to feel the joy of reading?? What role or which roles can the public- and school librarians have in the work of reading promotion, targeting children and adolescents with a reluctance to read?We have used Beers's theories about reluctant readers and reading promotion, Chambers's model and theory ?Reading Circle? and his theories about conditions that promote a ?good reading environment?. We have also used Smidt's theories about the librarian's different roles in the work of supplying literature.The method we have used is qualitative and based on literature and interviews with 7 children- and school librarians that all of whom work or have worked with reading promotion for children and adolescents in the ages between 9-15, that are reluctant to read.Our results show that in order to gain understanding about the attitudes towards, and relationship to reading, our targeted group have, the librarian has to be aware of the inner conditions that these children and adolescents have. These inner conditions are going to affect the work and the result of the reading promotion activity.

Att vara empatisk innebär att vara medveten om andra människors känslor och att handla efter dessa. Vissa forskare anser att denna intelligens är medfödd, men att den som andra intelligenser måste tränas för att utvecklas (Smith 2006; Hoffman 2000) Enligt Läroplan för förskolan Lpfö 98 (Skolverket 2010) ska empatiarbete finnas med i den dagliga verksamheten, genom att arbetsmetoder som främjar förmåga till inlevelse och medkänsla med andra inkluderas.Syftet med arbetet är att undersöka hur förskolepersonal kan ta del av metoder som stöds av forskning, för att stärka och uppmuntra barns empatiska handlingar och utveckla dem. Flera forskare och författare anser att verksamma metoder i detta arbete är vuxnas närvaro och förhållningssätt, hur/att barn får använda känslor och blir bekräftade i dessa samt hur empatiska handlingar uppmärksammas i vardagen (Niss, Hindgren och Westin 2007; Öhman 2003). Genom att systematiskt tillämpa det väsentliga i sådana metoder i en småbarnsgrupp under sex månader, har jag följt och observerat vad de haft för inverkan på barnens empatiska förmåga.Observationerna i arbetet är uppdelade i två delar. Första delen visar exempel på spontana empatiska handlingar hos barnen.