A research on children's rights based on children's literature

Works of children's literature contain various messages in their fiction. The purpose of this study is to determine the level of children's rights and how they are included in domestic and foreign children's books sold in Turkey. This research is a descriptive study in the screening model. The data source of the research is literary children's books, which are widely sold on the sites of Yurt, Idefix and D&R, from book sales stores that appeared on the Internet search in Turkey in 2019. The data obtained through document review from the 11 books determined in this context have been studied descriptively. Child rights children children's rights to basic research and the equality of the rights set out in the convention, the children of the right to development, the right to the protection of children, the health and growth of children rights, the right of children to prevent the humiliation, the right to participation of children, the culture of living together, the child's culture on the basis of principles were read. Along with the study, it was seen that there were messages about the awareness of children's rights based on human rights in children's books that were sold a lot, and some of these messages were directly transmitted in sentences, and some were given indirectly (implicitly). Children should be brought together with books that express their fundamental rights set out in the convention on the rights of the child and give their messages implicitly. It is a conclusion reached within the scope of this research that other works written for children should be examined with the same purpose and point of view.