An evaluation releated to Ömer Seyfettin's stories for 9-11 ages children's group

The Turkish ?Children?s Literature? is formed, asin the sense of today, in the second half of the 19th century. For children, books were written before, however they were at the level of deductive and guidance. The first dine of the children?s literature is that to develop the children?s love of reading and supply the habit of reading. To supply this, the books which will bw presented for them must be prepared more fastidiously. Publishers, teachers and families are responsible as much as authors in this subject.In this study, the negatives and the results, in the relativity of children in the children?s literature and the educational values that books should carry which are taken from fourteen stories from Ömer Seyfettin?s ten story books are tried to be defined and evaluated.These stories are studied and evaluated according to these topics which carry negative features for children; violence, sexuality, race, the attitues that support the superiority of religion, slang words and idioms, pictures, the behaviours that can form bad examples and detailed description.