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All over the world, translated books make up a significant part of children’s literature. Therefore, studying the linguistic structure and features of these books, and also the factors based on which children, their parents, and Children’s Books Council approve of a book, is essential. One of the most crucial linguistic aspects of children’s books translation is choosing the appropriate set of vocabulary since the translator is supposed to select proper equivalents from kids’ limited vocabulary to facilitate conveying the content and hence, their comprehension of the book. The current research is mainly concerned with how different these word choice methods are through the framework of natural morphology theory as well as how successfully translators have managed to select the proper set of vocabulary using this theory. concerning the aim, this is applied research involving mixed methods. The data were extracted from PLDB. The inferential statistics findings indicated that the principles of natural morphology (iconicity, transparency, binarity, and word length), no significant difference was observed between the words in authored versus translated books, Although, based on descriptive statistics, authored books have a more natural rate in the parameters of iconicity and word length. Thus the results indicate that overall, the translators & authors of children’s books have successfully managed to select the right set of vocabulary.

All over the world, translated books make up a significant part of children's literature. Therefore, studying the linguistic structure and features of these books, and also the factors based on which children, their parents, and Children's Books Council approve of a book, is essential. One of the most crucial linguistic aspects of children's books translation is choosing the appropriate set of vocabulary since the translator is supposed to select proper equivalents from kids' limited vocabulary to facilitate conveying the content and hence, their comprehension of the book. The current research is mainly concerned with how different these word choice methods are through the framework of natural morphology theory as well as how successfully translators have managed to select the proper set of vocabulary using this theory. concerning the aim, this is applied research involving mixed methods. The data were extracted from PLDB. The inferential statistics findings indicated that the principles of natural morphology (iconicity, transparency, binarity, and word length), no significant difference was observed between the words in authored versus translated books, Although, based on descriptive statistics, authored books have a more natural rate in the parameters of iconicity and word length. Thus the results indicate that overall, the translators & authors of children's books have successfully managed to select the right set of vocabulary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Precision to the upbringing of future generations is an indication of the importance of children's education. The raising and strengthening of the aesthetic (liking) level of the new generations under the leadership of wisdom and morality is the primary responsibility of education. On that sense children's picture books are a basic educational tool to contribute to the teaching-learning process. In this sense the quality of the messages in children's picture books has great importance. In this study, it is aimed to examine the stories in Christine Beigel's "Anne Tavuk Anlatıyor" is series in terms of negative messages. The 10 books in the series were evaluated based on the pre-service teachers and pre-school teachers who were studying in the department. In this work, which is structured qualitatively, the data is collected by means of a document review. Content analysis from qualitative analysis techniques is based on in the analysis of the data. According to the results obtained from the study, it was determined that the books examined had a message about a hedonist way of life that could corrupt the values and weaken human relations. Besides, participants stated that the books were not designed in a holistic fiction, they had a superficial beginning and accelerated ends; the books offered negative messages to child readers such as violence, threats, unlimited consumption and misreporting gender roles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]