Özet:

The book has an important role in the personality development of the child. Books, which are highly functional in terms of cognitive, affective and psycho-motor development, affect children’s thoughts, feelings and imagination as well as their personalities. For this reason, publishing houses should be extremely conscious and careful in the approving (printing) of children’s books, and parents and teachers in their selection. Especially in translated children’s books, many criteria should be taken into consideration, such as whether authors with different cultures and beliefs have pedagogical care, whether they write for children, whether they consider universal values, and whether they pay attention to language and expression. Publications that do not meet these criteria may cause cultural and belief confusion in children’s minds. In this study, the basic values of Gülten Dayıoğlu’s Cambaz Parası and Virginia Woolf’s The Widow and the Parrot children’s stories were compared. When examining these works in question taking into account pedagogical sensitivity it has been determined that the sensitivity in question is observed in Cambaz Parası and that basic values such as ‘empathy, trust, honesty, kindness, love, sharing’ are processed, in The Widow and the Parrot, it was found that negative attitudes and behaviors such as ‘selfishness, alienation, hate speech, disrespect for the dead’ were included without considering the sensitivity in question.

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