Аннотация
This article discusses the issue of the significance of the work of Bekmurat Uakhatov, who studied the features of the development and formation of children's folklore, which became the source and source of Kazakh folkloristics. Bekmurat Uakhatov considers children's folklore as one of the most important branches of folk art, analyzes the scientific concepts, the content of which is intertwined with deep ancient musical motifs, is considered the spiritual core of raising children. The collection of children's folklore of the scientist is considered not only in the context of Kazakh oral literature, but also in comparison with the features of children's folklore of related Turkic peoples and ethnic groups, subject, genre, plot, poetic artistry is recognized. Through the research of B.Uakhatov, it is understood that children's folklore of our people is diverse in terms of genre composition, as well as their function, depending on the specifics of their origin and performance, poems written by adults for children, works preserved in the children's repertoire, and the nature of poems distributed by children themselves are described. At the same time, on the basis of the research, ways of forming the spiritual values of the Kazakh people through national literature and culture, the importance of introducing the younger generation to the examples of children's literature in its implementation, mastering the examples of folklore, as a means of preserving our traditional culture are revealed. Education of the younger generation as citizens of a cultured, civilized country it tells about the special place of children's folklore. It is shown that the folklore genre in the formation of a closely developing traditional culture, which tells about the way of life and ancestral traditions of the Kazakh people, together with a picture of past life, is a great science that has developed and flourished over the centuries.