This study was carried out to reveal the importance of cultural elements in child development and to determine how children's literature products can be used in the transmission of Turkish oral culture. In the study, the child was defined by supporting child development, children's literature, child development theories, cultural development, and the relationship between these elements, which have an important place in the development of the individual, was expressed. The importance of cultural elements in the child's self-perception and in forming an attitude towards life; Behavioral Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, Cognitive Development Theory, Sociocultural Theory, Information Processing Theory, Ecological Systems Theory, Multiple Intelligence Theory are explained separately. It has been revealed that children who grow up in environments enriched with cultural elements show positive development in cognitive, linguistic, social and psychomotor aspects. It has been revealed that the personality and moral development of the individuals who make up the society cannot be handled independently from the culture, and the importance of a sustainable structure of the culture has been emphasized by considering the child and adult population ratios. It has been revealed that the strength of the bond between culture and development is of great importance for the cognitive and spiritual development of the individual, and it has been stated that the most important factor in the formation of this bond is the use of language. It has been revealed that the use of children's literature products is extremely important in the transfer of culture to children in the critical period of language and personality development. In this context; When, how and in what ways cultural elements should be given to the child in the development process has been expressed with support from the psychology, education and child development literature. Ideas on how to transfer Turkish oral culture elements in childhood have been put forward and it has been stated that children's literature has primary importance in this regard. Within this importance, the physical and content features of children's literature works are explained, and the roles of drawings, pictures, shapes and sentences in cultural transfer are revealed. Socioeconomic status, race and gender are not key factors for the development of learning ability in child development; It has been determined that the language environment used in the child's first years has a power over all of them. Based on the fact that cultural elements are also transmitted through language, it has been stated that behind the cultural transfer and thus the individual's preparation for life is the fact that parents use the language rather than economic reasons, and offer their children books and environments enriched with rich cultural elements. Based on the fact that it is of vital importance for children to come together with books from early childhood, it has been revealed that children, books and cultural elements should always be intertwined, considering that the child will experience faltering in the developmental process even without a cultural bond. For this purpose, it has been stated how translated children's books, children's picture books, digital books, digital tools and fictionalized texts will contain these elements, and it has been emphasized that this process should be under the umbrella of education with sustainable policies.