Media response to books for children and youth with same-sex couple theme in Czech environment

This bachelor thesis is dedicated to the media response to books for children and youth, in which the topic of same-sex couples appears. The theoretical part defines literature for children and youth, the literary fairy tale as one of its genres, and focuses on contemporary Czech work for children and youth. It also deals with representation of homosexuality in modern Czech literary works. The practical part of the thesis presents four selected books in which the topic of same-sex couples appears and gives a profile of their authors, or translators, and publishing houses in which they were published in the Czech republic. It then maps and subsequently analyzes the media response of these books in the Czech mass media. The bachelor thesis also includes the interview with Ondřej Moravec, the author of one of the selected books, devoted to the origin of his book and the issue of portraying homosexuality in works for children and youth in the Czech Republic