OʻZBEK TILIDAGI BOLALAR ADABIYOTI: ZAMONAVIY TALABLAR VA SIFAT MUAMMOLARI

This article analyzes the current state of children's literature in the Uzbek language, its development trends, and quality problems arising from modern pedagogical and aesthetic requirements. The study covers such criteria as age psychology, language simplicity, artistic and aesthetic expressiveness, and educational significance of children's literature. It also scientifically evaluates problems such as lexical simplification, content superficiality, and the dominance of the didactic approach in modern children's works. The article substantiates the role of the writer's responsibility, literary criticism, and publishing policy in the development of children's literature, and puts forward practical proposals for improving quality.