Fairy tales are an important part of a child's integrated development, as well as the only literary form that guides the child to discover his own identity and shows him which experiences he may need for further development of his character. Although we may not realize what a great influence have fairytales on both, children and adults. However, more and more children interferes with the visualy supported stories, so we need to give the child education by both reading and media and also assist in choosing quality cartoons as well developing critical thinking and evaluation.
The first, theoretical part of the thesis, describes some important concepts related to the topic. In the beginning the concept of a fairy tale is described in which its significance, impact on children and the focus population is covered. We mentioned what motivation is and its role in the reading process. Further on a child's reading development is described, being said something about how children experience a fairy tale that could seriously affect their life hence is extremely important for the normal development of a child. We identified a cartoon and pointed out the advantages and disadvantages that arise. We mentioned and introduced Animateka (International Animated Film Festival) and Elephant Programme, which aimes at the youngest participants.
In the second part of the thesis we compared cartoon and a fairy tale while cooperating with scholars from Oskar Kovačič primary school. At first we read a fairy tale of Peter Pan and after we watched animated movie. With the fairy tale of Thumbelina we did the opposite, first we watched tha animated movie and after listened to the story. We observed differences in the experience of watching and listening. We noticed that with reading children were motivated by dramatization which raised their level of interest. The cartoon is a matter of satisfaction and joy to a child in any way, with just being colourful and animated.
In the third part of the thesis we have made an animated movie in a collaboration with scolars and Animateka
