Jag har valt att studera hur valet av barnlitteratur ser ut på tre förskolor. Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur barnlitteraturen kommer till förskolan. Den väg som jag inriktat mig på är pedagoger på förskolor som är verksamma som läsinspiratörer via biblioteket. Jag undersöker hur de påverkar urvalet av böcker som finns för barnen på förskolan. Genom att undersöka vägen som litteraturen tar innan den hamnar på förskolan vill jag synliggöra valet som biblioteket och pedagogerna gör av böcker och se hur anpassad litteratururvalet blir till barnen. Mitt resultat visar att samtliga läsinspiratörer uttryckte en vilja att erbjuda barnen ett anpassat bokurval men de menade samtidigt att kommunikationen mellan biblioteket och pedagogerna var relativt liten, vilket möjligen gör det svårt att anpassa bokurvalet till barnen. / I have studied how three preschools are choosing literature. The purpose of the study is to investigate how books come to the preschool. The path that I focus on is educators at the preschool which are acting as reading inspirers through the library. I investigate how they influence on selection of literature that is made available for children at the preschools. By examining the path that literature takes before it comes to the preschool. I want to make the libraries and educators selection process visible to understand how adapted the books becomes for the children. My results show that the educators expressed their willingness to choose good and adapted literature selections for the children, but in the same time they considered that communication between the library and the educators was relatively small, possible making it difficult to adapt literature selection for the children.

A vivid democracy requires participation from those who live in it, including children. Unlike adults, children have special laws and regulations to ensure them their democratic rights. Librarians’ decision on what to buy makes an impact to someone else, which puts the librarian in a hegemonic position. Therefore, the purpose of this bachelor thesis is to, out of the child librarian’s perspective, view children’s participation at the public library in the matter of purchasing literature. The research questions examine the process of purchasing, how the children’s participation is apparent in it and also in the librarian’s work. The aim for this study is not to problematize the purpose nationwide, but simply to look into it in a smaller selection. Therefore the interviews have been limited to two and have been conducted with children’s librarians who operate in similar contexts. The results have been analyzed out of the theories concerning the librarian profession, the aspects of hegemony and participation using sense interpretation as an analysis. The results have shown that children’s participation is seen as important by the librarians but not always easy to implement. Also, they acknowledge the fact that publishing houses do have the power to decide what to release and not. As a link between politicians, the society and the publishers, the librarian is placed in an intermediate position which demands a great deal of competence. Furthermore, working on this study has shown that research on children’s participation from the children’s own perspective is needed.