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deElse Günther, who is a writer of child novels, introduces far countries such as Asia or Africa and European countries such as Sweden to children. In this way, she tries to improve the intercultural skills of the post-war generation. In this article, a novel of the writer named "Sonjas lustige Türkenreise" is going to be discussed. Protagonist little Sonja goes to Turkey with her uncle who knows very little Turkish and she encounters a new culture for the first time in Turkey as a Islamic country. Writer has described her emotions like fear, happiness or missing not only in a child's but also in an adult's perpective. Thus, readers can observe from both viewpoints and form their own ideas. In this paper, we tried to find answer to these questions: 1) Which emotional expressions does the author use in self-perception? 2) Which emotional expressions does the author use perceiving the others? 3) Which differences can be observed between the two forms of perception? The emotions based on prejudices in the perception of strangers are usually negative, and those lead to negative verbal feeling expressions. But we can say that the negative emotions turn into positive as the stranger is gotten know, the prejudices are questioned and in this way the communication of people is aimed to be improved. Based upon the novel, we guess the writer had been in Turkey in person heretofore because she successfully describes the historical places and environment. We think she tells the foreigners using an interactive observation and motivates the child readers for understanding them in a humanistic point of view. The importance of this novel is that it had been written after the downfall of the Nazi regime and before the worker migration in 60's. Bias against foreigners and orientalistic approach was relatively not so common in that time period. Based on the children's feelings being naive and natural, we think that investigating them will highly contribute to the pedagogic purposes.  

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