"Är farmor en bebis med rynkor?" : En jämförande analys om hur döden framställs i tre barnböcker.

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to see how death and the grief process is explained in three children's books with death as a motif. I will also describe how to look at children's literature as a teaching material when dealing with existential questions with the youngest children in school. The information I gathered from these books shows that death is often mentioned in a connection to an older person who dies from ageing or a parent who dies in the event of a fatal disease. In some of these books is life after death described with a religious belief, most from Christianity. They all mediates hope and a view of death as a continuation, meaning that something else is happening after your life as a human. I also come to the fact that the pictures mediate important messages and play a decisive part in the perception of the story. I concluded that all three books are useful when you are teaching children about death and grief. But they should be used for different purposes and in different contexts in the classroom.