Content Analysis of Life Skills in Selected Books for Children and Teenagers (1st, 2nd, and 3rd Age Groups)

The purpose of this research was exploring the components of life skills in selected children's books. Among the books published for children, some are selected as the best books that parents, educators, and those who somehow deal with children accept them. These books were examined and analyzed to see the number and way of dealing with life skills. Content analysis method was used for this study. The statistical population consisted of children’s books and the sample were top winners the most awarded selected by purposeful sampling. The researcher selected fiction works that had won more awards in their own field and analyzed them based on the quality and extent of components of life skills. The results showed that empathy skills, creative thinking, communication skills, and critical thinking are the most frequent components in these books. In most of the investigated stories, the characters who had life skills were the successful and the characters who lacked skills failed at the end of the story.