Abstract:

Children's books that play a vital role in the development of the vocabulary and raising awareness of mother tongue beauty and mother tongue consciousness should not be prepared at random. The number of words contained in the books, the utilization rate of the vocabulary that illuminate the cultural structure of the society and reveal the subtleties of the language should be determined at each age level. The purpose of this study is to compare the basic vocabulary of works in the field of children's literature. In this study that adopted a descriptive approach in the scanning model, the document review was used as a data collection method. According to the text types, the total and different word counts in children's books, total and different proper nouns, twenty proper nouns most frequently used in children's books, the frequencies and percentages of words in the range of 0-2000, by text types the words in the range of 0-2000 and non-conforming percentages of them, a hundred words most frequently used in children's books were examined. The results of this research are: Children's books written using the most different words are fictions and novels. Children's books written using least different words are poetry. In children's books, proper nouns are most commonly used in the type of poetry, and the least used in the type of tale. The most commonly used 2000 words in children's books correspond to a range of 86-91% of total words. When compared with the most commonly used 2000 words, it is understood that the most common words used in novel-story types; the least common words used in epic-theater types. The 100 most frequently used words in children's books are listed. The words most frequently used in children's books are “Bir, da(de), ol-, bu, de-, ben(pronoun), o, ne, mı (mi,mu,mü), gel-”.

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