Doğanın Çocuk Kitaplarına Yansıması: Uç Minik Serçem Romanı

Nature and environmental awareness has become an area that attracts more and more attention in education processes as a basic skill aimed to be gained. Children's books, which are seen as an effective tool to support individual and social development, also offer useful resources for instilling nature and environmental awareness. In this study, Necati Cumalı's Three Little Sparrows is discussed in order to present an example of how nature is reflected in children's books. The book is a children's novel about a nature-loving girl and a homeless sparrow. The research, which was conducted as a case study based on document analysis, examined how the work in question approaches nature and which concepts are included in terms of environmental awareness. In the novel, nature finds a place with its different aspects and functions (as a living space, with its relations with living things, with people, with the destruction it has suffered). As a living space, nature is home to many living things and provides people with a livelihood. The harmony between man and nature is conveyed through the heroes who care about the places they live. However, the destruction of nature causes all this balance and order to be lost among concrete structures. With these issues, the book is a work in which environmental awareness is clearly reflected.