The educational messages in the novel and stories of Hidayet Karakuş

The last prophet of the religion of Islam stated that children are the walking lungs of us on earth (Arif, 1980: 291). As in the same way when there is no respiration there is no life, negatives in the cognitive, affective and mental development of children or failure in gaining necessary basic values will bring the situation at the point of destroying our future and presence. And this causes our society to be leaded administratively and psychologicaly by other societies. The care we will take for children and the importance we will feel fort hem will contribute to children?s being healthy individuals who are basic stones of our future. At this point here falls important responsibilities to academicians, teachers, authors producing works in the field of child literature and especially to parents. In this work the stories and novels written by Hidayet Karakuş for children were examined. Detecting the moral, spiritual and behaviour developing messages in these works in the field of child literature form the basis of this work. Key Words: Hidayet Karakuş, child literature, educational messages