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The purpose of my study is to investigate the wideness of working with fiction in education during the early years in primary school. I want to see in what way fiction is involved and why the teachers choose to work the way they are with fiction. I also want to see what kind of effects this work could have on the development of the pupils. I've done interviews with four teachers to find out about their opinions when it comes to involve fiction into the education. The teachers are all working with pupils between nine and eleven years old. All of the teachers had daily work with silent reading, and the teachers also were reading out loud every day. Reflecting and discussing the books together were very common in the four classrooms. This is giving the pupils empathy and understanding of the world around them. Another way to work with fiction is to use it in different kinds of themes. This is a excellent way to integrate subjects with each other and this work also gives the pupils space to control the education a bit for themselves. All of the teachers used fiction in subjects like geography and history, but the use of fiction was most common in the subject Swedish and certainly with reading. The reason why the teachers worked with fiction in education seemed to be that the all had a big interest in fiction themselves and that they wanted to transmit that feeling to the pupils. Working with fiction can be a great way to make the learning joyful and we can use it I many ways. It's just our own creativity that makes the boundaries.