Bilgin Adali’s Children’s Novels in Terms of Appropriateness to Development Areas
Journal Title: folklor&edebiyat - Year 2018, Vol 24, Issue 96
Abstract
In this study, it was aimed to determine the suitability of children novels of Bilgin Adalı, one of the important figures of the contemporary children literature. In his childrens’ novels, Adalı, who introduced first-age humans to today’s children, aims his readers to have fun together with their peers instead of just giving informations about history. In addition to rich character variety in his works, these historical informations are narrated on the basis of language richness. Besides these features, Adalı’s children novels include the fiction that the child’s development areas can be monitored as a whole. The study is a descriptive research and was carried out on the basis of document analysis method. Author’s novels Dünya Artık Daha Güzel, Mavi Gezegenin İlk İnsanları, Çatalhöyük Öyküleri 1,2 ve 3, Zaman Bisikleti 1,2 and 3, Aninna’nın Serüvenleri 1 and 2 were examined in terms of the suitability of cognitive, linguistic & personality and social development areas with the opinion of an expert. It was determined that ten works examined are adequate in the cognitive and language field and partly adequate in personality and social development areas. From these findings, it was concluded that Bilgin Adalı’s children novels were suitable for between 9 to 12 year old children’s development areas.
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Özgül Çağlayan, Betül Mutlu
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Bilgin Adali’s Children’s Novels in Terms of Appropriateness to Development Areas
In this study, it was aimed to determine the suitability of children novels of Bilgin Adalı, one of the important figures of the contemporary children literature. In his childrens’ novels, Adalı, who introduced first-age...