The review of texts in 6th grade Turkish books used in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in terms of "The basic principles that the child literature works should be based on

The aim of this research is to examine the texts in the 6th grade Turkish textbook taught in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in terms of the basic qualities that should be found in children's literature products. Our study was created by examining the texts in the Turkish textbook taught at the 6th grade level of secondary school in the 2019-2020 academic year in the TRNC. Document analysis, one of the descriptive research methods, was used in the study process. During our study, first of all, the basic principles that children's literature texts should be based on were determined. In this direction, the necessary information was collected from the relevant sources by making a literature review. Thirty texts in the relevant textbook were examined and evaluated, taking into account the criteria related to the form and content that children's literature products should rely on. As a result of the research, it has been determined that the texts in the Turkish textbook taught at the 6th grade level of secondary school in the 2019-2020 academic year in the TRNC generally contain the features related to content and form within the scope of the basic principles that children's literature products should be based on. However, it has been observed that there is no variety of punctuation marks, the use of proverbs is very limited, the choice of pictures is insufficient, and there are inadequacies.