An investigation into the effect of tales on notion improvement of a child: Cahit Zarifoğlu sample

Although childhood, one of the shortest but most important period of human?s life, was initially ignored in terms of literature, has recently been the subject of it. In our coutry, where the notion of child literature has just gained importance, the oldest of the literary products put forward in this literary field is undisputedly tale.The fact that tale is a kind which steers people?s lifes, helps form their personalities, educates and entertains them, makes them gain the habit of reading and gives them literary delight increases its value on the subject of child development and education. This situation also enables that readers of tale are not only children but also adults.The investigation into what aspect tale, a literary kind of child literature effects the notion development of a child constitutes the main topic of this research. This studied topic has been tried to be examined over the tales of Cahit Zarifoğlu, one of our writers who wrote significant literary works in the field of child literature and laboured at forming of this field.Key words: child, child literature, kinds of child literature, kind of tale, notion, development of notion, Cahit Zarifoğlu