Creative Education, 2015, 6, 2013-2020 Published Online October 2015 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/ce http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ce.2015.618206 How to cite this paper: Danacı, M. Ö., Çetin, Z., & Doğan, Ö. (2015). The Effect of Adolescents’ Reading Children’s Litera- ture to Their Younger Siblings on Their Book Reading Habits. Creative Education, 6, 2013-2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ce.2015.618206 The Effect of Adolescents’ Reading Children’s Literature to Their Younger Siblings on Their Book Reading Habits Miray Özözen Danacı 1 , Zeynep Çetin 2 , Özcan Doğan 2 1 Department of Child Development, Duzce University, Duzce, Turkey 2 Faculty of Healty Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey Email: mirayozozen@hotmail.com , zcetin@hacettepe.edu.tr , ozcdogan@hacettepe.edu.tr Received 9 September 2015; accepted 27 October 2015; published 30 October 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of children’s reading activities carried out by adolescents for their siblings on their reading habits. The study is an experimental study with a pretest-posttest model and experimental and control groups. Its sample included 56 adolescents aged 15-16 with siblings aged 4-5 in kindergarten (n: 56). As the pretest and posttest, Gomleksiz’s Attitude Scale on Book Reading Habituation (2004) was used. After the pretest, adolescents read to their younger siblings 2 days a week for 25 minutes during a 14-week period. The posttest data collected were examined, and no statistically significant difference was found between the expe- rimental and control groups. These results indicate that adolescents reading for their siblings may support their potential for book reading habituation, but this practice alone is insufficient. Keywords Children’s Literature, Habituation, Reading, Attitude, Activity 1. Introduction In our age of science and technology, reading is one of the most important habits that one can acquire. For this reason, children should be introduced to books as soon as possible. Literature enables children to see the world from other perspectives and help their imagination expand by transporting them to other places and exposing them to the lives of others. Reading, not only consists the substructure of taking information but also constitutes the basis of critical thought, interpretationing force (Ungan, 2008). Experiences at early ages are crucial for de-