This study aims to examine teachers’ reflections on reading aloud and how social gender isportrayed in the fictional books they chose. Furthermore, the study intends to examine howthe teachers’ reflections relate to the books’ social gender descriptions. The methods used inthis study are semi-structured interviews and text analysis. The interviews were conducted onsix elementary school teachers. One of the questions asked during the interview was: Whatwere the three most recent children’s fiction books you read aloud? These books were thesubject of the text analysis. The text analysis was based on Nikolajeva’s (2004) code schemefor gender stereotypical attributes. The study showed that the teachers were aware of theirreasoning behind their choice to read aloud in their classroom and expressed several of theirintentions. These intentions were language, light reading, joint development, subjectintegrations, identity and necessity. The result of the text analysis showed that the charactersin the children’s fiction books had varying attributes, however, the female-presentingcharacters had a greater tendency to be assigned female stereotypical attributes. Finally, theresult showed that teachers were aware of social gender when choosing a book to read aloud.The teachers want children’s fiction books to contain characters with varied attributes so thatthey could talk and problematize social gender together with the pupils. The teachersconsidered that this led to social gender being made visible to pupils.