A review of children's books for primary school students

The examination of 6–10-year-old children's books in terms of children's literature qualities have been aimed with this study. While examining 6–10-year-old children's books, deep analysis method which is one of the qualitative research methods has been used. "Children's books' internal and external structure features form" and "Children's books' picture-text relationship form" have been prepared by the researcher in accordance with expert views. The data collected for children's books were presented within frequency and percentage tables. Descriptive analysis method was used while analyzing the data. When the research results were examined, it was concluded that some of the children's books lacked the internal and external structure features of children's literature. When the cover of some of the books were examined, it was seen that they were inadequate in terms of paper quality, font size and line length. They are also insufficient in terms of physical, personality and spiritual characteristics of the heroes and characters. They also lack different or national cultural values, they do not pay attention to spelling and spelling rules and common foreign vocabulary is used instead of their meanings in Turkish. It has been concluded that the ratio between picture and text usage in children's books is hardly appropriate, the pictures in children's books have a low relationship between time and place and the pictures in children's books do not have a relationship with the text on the same page. Keywords: Children's books, internal structure, external structure, picture-text relationship