Child and education themes in Aziz Nesin's stories and novels

Children literature is a concept which has been developed so as to contribute to theinterests, feelings and thoughts, growth and development of the children and which hasbeen in the agenda of our country since the beginning of the century.In the Administrative Reforms Period, it started with the translation of some bookswhich became famous in the west and through the time its importance in literature has beenunderstood better.Especially the Republic Era was a turning point for the development of the childrenliterature; children literature and child were paid more attention to and numerous writersstarted to create works in this field.One of these writers is Aziz Nesin. He gave importance to the concept of ?child?and focused on this concept in his works. He started writing with the work ?Monologues?using the pseudonym ?Oya Ateş?. Besides his numerous stories, novels and plays foradults, he also didn?t ignore Children Literature and widely cared for education in hisstories and novels, numbers of which are over ninety six.Aziz Nesin advocates that not all the time must the children be told nice and goodthings, but also they should experience the realities from the very early periods of thechildhood. He, to that aim, tries to implement such values into the child as working,producting, cooperation, sharing, respect to labour, thinking, questioning, criticizing,researching, critiquing and so forth.