Authors : Mustafa Yeniasir and Burak Gokbulut
Abstract: Children have spiritual-physical needs at every period. The aforementioned needs are provided by families, teachers, books. Children need literary works to learn life. Children’s literature works, contribute to the children’s world of sentiment and emotion. The works (books) which children shall read will differ at every developmental period because of this while preparing a text for them, a set of specialities, just like perception level, field of interest, spiritual world of the target audience must be considered. Havva Tekin has done an important contribution to the Cyprus Turkish children’s literature with her novel named “The children of Green Island”. The author tells the realities lived through 1974-1975 from the point of two children in the novel which was written by taking basic principles of children’s literature into consideration. A child will find indications from his/her own life in this documentarily novel that will cause him/her to read it with interest.
Mustafa Yeniasir and Burak Gokbulut, 2016. In Terms of Principles of Children’s Literature, the Novel Entitled “Children of the Green Island”. The Social Sciences, 11: 1524-1530.