Maria Lassén-Seger

• Åbo Akademi University

Theme: Multilingualism and Children's Literature. Ill. Henry Lyman Saÿen - Child Reading (1915–1918). Smithsonian American Art Museum, object number 1968.19.11. State-Sanctioned Multilingualism for Babies and Their Adults: Literary Multilingualism in Finnish Baby Box Books The baby books that, since the 1980s, are included in the Finnish state’s ma...

Barn- och ungdomslitteraturen går genom tiderna hand i hand med emancipationen och kvinnofrågan. Litteraturkategorin inte bara tematiserar emancipation – den kamp för kvinnans frigörelse från könsdiskriminerande lagar och strukturer som uppkom under 1800-talet – utan har utgjort en plattform för kvinnliga författare att ta plats i offentligheten. T...

Maternity packages, introduced in 1938 by the Finnish state to counteract declining birth rates and infant mortality, have reached all newborns regardless of income or social status from 1949 onwards. The box is a unique phenomenon internationally and a significant part of the Finnish history of childhood as its contents mirror contemporaneous view...

Ilon Wikland – an Artist’s Life Maria Lassén-Seger (Åbo Akademi University) reviews Ilon Wikland – ett konstnärsliv (Ilon Wikland – an Artist’s Life) written by Enno Tammer and translated by Maarja Talgre.

Alf Prøysen’s Mrs Pepperpot has been adopted by Swedish children’s literature. Still, there is little research done on the stories about her. In this article, I explore the impact of Prøysen’s popular miniature character using topical research on the concept of elderly women or, so called, “aunts”. Mrs Pepperpot’s gender and age, as well as the nat...

Review/recension Published: 21 May 2013

This article considers the conditions and possibilities of writing a methodologically innovative glocal history of post-war Swedish-language children’s literature in Finland. Since previous studies of this literature are, as of today, fragmented and scattered in various publications, a comprehensive and more nuanced picture of the time period is so...

This article considers the conditions and possibilities of writing a methodologically innovative glocal history of post-war Swedish-language children’s literature in Finland. Since previous studies of this literature are, as of today, fragmented and scattered in various publications, a comprehensive and more nuanced picture of the time period is so...

Nedslag i børnelitteraturforskningen. 1–7. Skrifter fra Center for børnelitteratur. Frederiksberg: Roskilde Universitetsforlag, 1999–2007. ISSN 99-3167596-9 Recensent: Wiveca Friman Ingjerd Traavik: Innøfring i bildeanalyse med Fam Ekman inn i bildeboka. Oslo: Unipub, 2007. ISBN 978-82-7477-216-8 Recensent: Elina Druker Sirke Happonen: Vilijonkka...

In this book, members of the ChiLPA Project explore the children’s literature of several different cultures, ranging from ancient India, nineteenth century Russia, and the Soviet Union, to twentieth century Britain, America, Australia, Sweden, and Finland. The research covers not only the form and content of books for children, but also their poten...