Vad erbjuds barn genom barnlitteratur i förskolan? : En analys av åtta bilderböcker som nominerats till Förskolebarnens litteraturpris 2023

Sammanfattning: This study contains analysis from eight different children’s books, who are nominated for the preschool children’s literature prize on the platform Polyglutt, to look at the didactic potentials the books contain based on the Swedish preschool’s foundations of values. The purpose of the study is to illuminate and emphasize the importance that preschools teachers in their pedagogical planning makes conscious choices on the fiction the children in preschool are offered. To dwell deeper into the purpose of the study we use three main research questions, who ask for the didactic potential related to the foundation of values in preschool and also how feelings and relationships are portrayed and made visible in the literature. The theoretical framework we used to analyze the content of the books is Alkestrand’s (2016) description of books didactical potential. As help, we have used Rhedin's (1992) theory of how a children's book's text and image work together and Kåreland's (2021) description of the construction and structure of a children's book. The method used is a qualitative analysis based on the study's methodological questions where we answer what didactic potential we see in the book and why the book is relevant to read in preschool. The result that can be seen based on the analysis made, is that the selection’s of books we have used show that they are relevant to use in preschool, based on their didactic potential.