Childcare centres in Norway, which serve children from 0 to 5 years, are obliged to prepare an annual plan and to involve children in the planning process. Based on a systematic Internet search carried out in 2015-2016, this article describes children's participation in annual plans through representations of their direct speech. Internet searches resulted in a small sample showing wide variation in the genres and rhetorical reasoning in which the utterances were embedded. This also implies variation in the functions that the different representations will likely have for professional development (PD). Some of the representations of direct speech in the plans where compatible with an idea of PD based on explorations of children's civic participation through communication.