Abstract:

In Germany, a country where different cultures study together, bilingual literary works are important for the education of children and young adults from different cultures living there. Children’s and Young Adult literature has a didactic function. While societies are being rebuilt, change in education has become inevitable. Children and young adult books have been used as beginner works for the education of individuals. Children are curious and they want to explore their environment. A child learns the values through his/her environment and books. There are literary works for every age, every developmental period and every case. Ideas, values and different experiences about the life spent change or become permanent as it is spent. In this study, Heinrich Hoffmann’s “Savruk Peter-Der Struwwelpeter” and Jessica Störmer’s “Nur Mut, Kurt! - Cesur ol Korkut” works written bilingually in Turkish and German were analysed. While comparing the works, the suitability of the works for primary school children, the visual design of the book, cultural elements and images it contains were considered. It was emphasised that different emotions such as fear and curiosity were used as a method of values education given to children and how it changes within the term. Besides, bilingualism of the works is important in that Turkish children living in German society are the target audience. In the study, what must be done so that children can comprehend the values was viewed through the works. Model behaviours and consequences are involved in the works. As a result, how recognising and sensing the outer world during the developmental period is formed via literary works and how children and young adults need this process was revealed in the study. From a didactic point of view, both works are didactic in terms of values education. While Störmer’s work conveys the “courage” Notion, Hoffmann’s work conveys the “good” notion to children.

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