Literature Education with Child Detective Stories

Child and youth literature is a transition literature in terms of both literature education and having the habit of reading. The aims of transition literature are to prepare young's to adult literature and make them good readers. Texts of Child and Youth literature are used in classroom as course material especially in language and literature courses, apart from reading literary books in another course for another purpose. It is quite hard to catch young and teenagers’ attention and keep this attention in today's world of multi-communication age. Therefore, the needs or interests of target group play a definite role in choosing texts. Hence child literature texts which address the world of target group and which keep their attention are required. Child crime and detective novel or story, which is another type in child literature, has always appealed to young's and teenagers. Multi-communication tools also support that idea. In this study, child detective texts that can be used as a course material in language, reading and literature has been evaluated and as they can be adapted to classroom use in courses, some sample course materials are suggested. The student between fourth grade and eighth grade are considered as target group.