Özet:

The aim of this study is to identify the views of Turkish teachers on children’s literature and to determine how Turkish teachers benefit from children’s literature in their classes. Children's literature is a rather inner-life area beyond being a lesson given in some bachelor's programs. Children’s literature plays an important role in the development of children’s reading culture. When preparing children's books, the principles of "parallel to the child" and "child reality" should be taken into account. The responsibilities of the Turkish teachers in the meeting of the books taken with the conscience of the children fall. Therefore, the views of Turkish teachers on children's literature are important. The universe of study is formed by Turkish teachers who work in the middle schools located in the Mersin province center. The examples of the study are made up of five Turkish high school teachers, selected in a simple and unselected way from these schools. As a data collection tool in the study, the survey was used, in order to reach more opinions, called "Turkish Teachers' Opinions on Children's Literature". In the interpretation of the data, statistical techniques (frequency, percentage) were made according to the average. Some of the teachers found that they did not take a child literature lesson during the course. Nevertheless, the teachers who take and don’t take a child literature lesson during the bachelor’s period have mostly been observed to have positive opinions about child literature. Unfortunately, despite these positive opinions, a number of lack of knowledge and misinformation about children's literature is attracted to teachers. Despite all this, it is possible to say that Turkish teachers accept the existence of the field of "Children Literature" and that they are trying to follow the field because of their professions.