Document Type : Research paper
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Stories written for children play an important role in developing their personalities. The child infers many of the moral values through reading good and instructive stories. Courage, altruism, hopefulness, freedom, advocating truth and standing against tyranny and violence are among the values that shape the central core of many children's stories. This causes the development of cognitive, emotional and social skills in children. Even if this kind of literature enjoys a long history but a scientific study of it took place after centuries. Children's literature developed during the mid-nineteenth century in Arabian countries and Egyptians were the pioneer. Nabil Soleiman Khalaf, the contemporary Egyptian writer has contributed to the development and growth of this kind of literature in Egypt and the world by writing more than twenty books for children. Based on the story, The Princess, The Red Butterfly, by Naabil Khalaf, the present study is intended to analyze writer's purpose of writing for children, the language and characters of his stories. The findings of the study indicate that the writer aims to improve creativity and imagination, decision making, and child reasoning to prepare them for social life. Emotional complexes and decreasing interaction among family members due to the busy schedules of parents are among other contents of the story. Since the stories are written for children, the author writes from a child's perspective and considers their language capacity; in other words he writes in a simple and comprehensive way. The author seeks the proper realization of social, instructive, moral, and scientific goals in the young generation of Egypt via the presentation of the characters of the story.
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