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Children’s magazines have an important impact on enabling
individuals to gain the habit of reading and experience literary
pleasure from early ages onwards. It is possible to date children’s
magazines in Turkey to the Tanzimat Reform Era. Many
magazines began their publishing life following the appearance
of Mümeyyiz, which was the first children’s magazine published
in our country. One of these early magazines was Çocuklara
Kıraat (Readings for Children). Çocuklara Kıraat was one of the
short-lived children’s magazines with a publication duration of
18 issues. It was published by Mehmet Ziya in 1881. This
study aims at examining this magazine. To this end, the 18 issues
making up the whole magazine collection were examined,
and the essays in each were grouped and classified according to
their contents.
At the end of these evaluations, the essays published in the
magazine were classified under the titles of moral advice, nature,
education, place descriptions, goods, language, translations,
stories, poems, riddles, proverbs, and readers’ letters. It is
possible to say that the essays we will analyze under these titles
mostly aim at creating positive behaviors in the age group they
address. The basic characteristic of the magazine is instructiveness.