Abstract:

The child is above all the laws and a determinant factor of the future of society. Therefore, teaching children's rights is not only for his benefit, but for the benefit of the whole society. The aim of this study is to investigate what role children's novels play in teaching children's rights. The novel has been studied in accordance with the United Nations convention on children's rights. In this descriptive analysis, the dialogues of the characters in the novel and the discourses of the narrator are divided into themes and categories according to children's rights. Accordingly, 8 themes were found: the right to education, the right to health, the right to play, the right to participate, the right to develop, the right to be a citizen, class discrimination, and protection. Also the theme of right to education; to start and work in the family; mental and physical development categories were found in the development theme. When the themes and categorizes are examined, it is seen that the author gives priority to the rights that are mentioned together with social rights in the classification of human rights, apart from basic rights such as nutrition and shelter in the children's novel. This situation is explained by the distinction between urban and peasant child in the novel. The research results strengthen the data that the work examined in this study can be used in teaching children's rights.

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