A document analysis on Feridun Oral's picture story books".

This study was designed as "A Document Analysis on Feridun Oral's Picture Story Books". The study includes 15 story books both written and illustrated by Oral between 1993 and 2017. The aim of this study is to perform formal, contextual and artistic analyses of illustrations and texts of Oral's 15 story books. For document analysis, "Picture and Text Analysis Items" were created by making use of literature and arrangements were made according to expert opinions and finalized. In the analysis of the data, besides document analysis, content analysis was performed and descriptive statistics methods were also used. The validity of the study was tried to be ensured by expert opinions and the reliability of the study was ensured by the internal consistency of the evaluations performed by another person besides the researcher. The internal consistency between the researcher and the other field expert's evaluations was 0.92, which is a very high level of reliability. According to the findings of the study, when the illustrations were examined, 91% of them were formal; 80% in terms of content and 99% in terms of artistic aspects were given in accordance with these qualities. Other way, 97% of the texts in terms of formal analysis; 94% in context; 92% of the artistic qualities were observed. This study is important in that it provides information about the analysis of the formal, contextual and artistic components of the paintings and texts of Feridun Oral's illustrated story books and will contribute to children's literature in this context.