%0 Journal Article
%T Er fagb ger en del af b rnelitteraturen?
%A Karlskov Skyggebjerg
%A Anna
%J Barnboken : Tidskrift f£¿r Barnlitteraturforskning
%D 2011
%I Svenska Barnboksinstitutet
%X Is non-fiction also a part of children¡¯ literature? In recent decades, children¡¯s literature researchers have only considered fiction children¡¯s literature (Maria Nikolajeva 1998 and Torben Weinreich 2004), and certain younger researchers has shown a tendency to write about experimental books by prize-winning authors (Bodil Kampp 2002). Very few researchers have shown an interest in non-fiction for children, and the consequence is that a great many publications for children have been overlooked. In the Nordic countries, Nina Goga¡¯s doctoral thesis from 2008 is the only exception from this exclusive definition of children¡¯s literature. In this article, I present a definition of children¡¯s literature that includes non-fiction. In this definition, literature means  something written¡¯ after  litera¡¯ (Latin: letter). The purposes of the article are, on the one hand, to discuss different definitions and characteristics of non-fiction for children, and on the other hand to identify ways to analyze these books as literature for children. The article includes a discussion of a series of books about zoology by the Danish author Bent J rgensen and the illustrator Birde Poulsen. One book in particular is discussed as an example of contemporary non-fiction and that is Om natten (In the Night, 2005). This book is subjected to analytical tools from literature studies, and one of the points is that non-fiction should be interpreted and described through a textanalytical approach.
%K definitions of children's literature
%K children's literature research
%K non-fiction for children
%K analysis of children's literature
%U http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sbi-33