Abstract:

Child's literature constitutes an important part of the literature area. Especially in recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of works written for children. However, there are some criteria that children, parents and educators should take into consideration when choosing works that will contribute to the child's cognitive, linguistic, and affective development. The purpose of this research is to examine the book " Kırmızı Şemsiye " in terms of the basic principles that a child's book should rely on the external structure and internal structure criteria that a child's book should have. For this purpose, after the characteristics of the external structure and internal structure of the work were specified by the researchers through document examination the ideas of the child readers related to these characteristics were taken by the interview. The data obtained from child readers were tabulated with the ideas of 3 field experts and presented in frequency and percentages. The characteristics of the work in terms of the principles which the child’s literature should be based on were specified by the researchers through document examination. Based on the data obtained from the research result; 1. That the cover and binding of the its dimension, the letters, the paper qualities that should be in the books for children, the pictures which are appropriate in terms of content with story line and parallelism, 2.The fiction of the book which is appropriate with the subject, the theme, the character, the message, the language and the expression, the nature shows regard to the relationship between the concrete reality and child reality, 3. It has been found that the work is designed in accordance with the basic principles to which the child’s book should be based and is a unique work when all these characteristics are taken into consideration.

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