Abstract:

Books not only support children's cognitive, emotional, psychomotor development, but they are also essential in language, social and moral development of children. Thanks to books, children have the opportunity to improve their thinking and problem solving skills and to develop their creativity. Furthermore, books help children to be aware of their environment, nature, people, and other living things. In addition to all these, books contribute to personality development of children and to meet the emotional and psychological needs. Although it is known that books are significant in people's life, in our society book reading rate is extremely low. Unless reading culture is created among pre-school children who will shape the future, low rate of book reading problem can't be tackled.  Recent researches have showed that book reading rate of parents is also at low levels. Therefore, educational institutions are charged with the responsibility of developing reading habit in children. Accordingly, it is necessary to establish libraries for pre-school children both in private and public schools. The aim of this study is to emphasize the importance of the books the development period of the preschool children and   to provide pre-school children in mind the formation of books and libraries perception and to emphasize the need for it preschool library.

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