Critical Study of Children's Stories: Elements of Fabulousness in East Java Folk Stories

Children's literature is still seen as literature that does not provide added value for its readers, so that the emergence of children's literature in society often receives little attention. Children's literature that enters elementary schools is not strictly selected so that children's literature that is not appropriate to children's growth and development enters elementary schools until it reaches children's hands and is read by children. If you look more closely at books aimed at children, not all of them are suitable for children to read. The reason why children's stories are not suitable for children to read is that some of the children's stories in circulation violate the rules for writing children's stories. From here, circulating children's literature needs to be studied critically before it reaches children. This research examines children's reading that contains forbidden elements in Lamongan Regency folklore. This research uses a moral approach to see the extent to which children's literary reading is able to provide educational value as the function of literature is to educate and entertain. As a result, several stories in circulation are not suitable for children to read because they violate the rules for writing children's literature, namely the content of the story used, the language style chosen, plot, characters and setting. not suitable for elementary school children.