The end of 30's when Ilyas Efendiyev appeared to in the literature, was a rapidly developed period from the aspect of themes and literary mastership of the Azerbaijan prose. The description of revolutionary events, revival of a new village, woman's freedom, family – welfare problems and other topics were main in prose works writen in those years. The stories, tales, and novels with these topics written by Abulhesen, M.Huseyn, S.Rehimov, A.Veliyev, S.Rehman, Mir Jelal, E.Memmedkhanlı, and other writers in 30's, were considered the earnest success of the Azerbaijan literature. The Azerbaijan stories were developed much faster. Along with stories depicting real life pictures, innovations of society, changes in man's psycology, some brilliant samples of satiric, comic, romantic and lyric works were written in this genre, which was striking for the variegated forms and plots. On one hand, the representatives of newly writing generation, on the other hand the writers, who developed our pre-revolutionary prose, such as J.Memmedquluzadeh, E.B.Hagverdiyev, S.S.Akhundov, A.Shaiq made our literature resplendent. Ilyas Efendiyev, who began writing stories having taken advantage of the Azerbaijan folklore, the literary works of classic and modern writers joined the general stream of the literature and soon he became one of the most active men of letters of the literature. In this period when Ilyas Efendiyev began writing the literature was the field of tense political and ideological struggle. The writer had to stand «political and ideological» trial before «maturity» exam, he didn't dare say a word beyond the frame of socialist realizm method. Ilyas Efendiyev gave lyric description of two youngs' graceful and humane treatments to each other in the story «A Night in Berlin», which was published once, later on wasn't included into any books of the writer and was forgotten then about while the writer lived on. And thus with this story he made his first lucky steps in writing a lyric story that he went on writing successfully in 50-60's. «Young Verter entered his little room in one of the worst streets of Berlin very late. He was in good humour. It was the first time that he came back from the date. He was full of sweet excitements of this love. He had forgotten about everything. The dream of that shy, pleasant – looking girl who he got acquainted 3 days ago, was smiling in front of his eyes. On, how wonderful life was. He was astonished at being unaware of so perfect feelings in the world till nowadays.» This example has been taken from Ilyas Efendiyev's first intercourse with his readers first published story «A Night in Berlin». The writer wrote this story when he was 24. The interesting thing is that the hero of the story Verter was 24 too. The writer and his hero in the story were at the same age.

The events in the story with an interesting and readable plot happen in Berlin. Young boy with grey hair and wrinkled face, who’s met people of different characters in his life, endured all the troubles, wrecked his health together with his happiness is lost in gentle and lovely dreams like the smell of violets, with sweet impressions from the date with his beloved girls sitting in his hut. The writer introduces the hero of the story to the reader; looks through the life story of his talanted young boy «who'l be Neuton or may be Shakespeare of Future». It turns out that Verter's father died at the war fronts when he was 4-5. His mother having heard this news melting like a bee wax died too. Verter, who became an orphan, idles in the streets, he dusts the masters' shoes, in the mornings earns his bread, and in the evenings he studies at the university and gets education. But the time has wrecked all his dreams. He can't stand tha burdens of life anymore, ha wants to throw himself in front of the train, to get drowned in the river. But he remembers his date and gives up commiting a suicide.

After introducing his hero to the readers, the writer describes Verter's inner world, his senses and agitations, the might of love overcoming all the troubles of the life. The youngs hope for their future and they meet. When they date, the girls life-bored asks Verter : «What's wrong with you? Why are you so pale?» Verter can't answer directly, he wants to smile, but his eyes were in tearts instead. Kissing beloved's hair he replies: «I'm safe and sound». The main idea of the story with such an ending is that love, love for life, love of living are the stongest of all. Even it can win over the death. The main aim of the story is Verter's coming to such a conclusion: «Oh… How wonderful the life is».

The readers wonder why Ilyas Efendiyev, who knew the Azerbaijan village quite well took the plot of his first story not from the life in Azerbaijan, but from Germany where fascism spread its wings open.

It's beyond doubt that, the event in the story based on the real life stories was not characteristic for happy soviet life, and may be for this reason, the writer changed the geographical place of the events into Germany – the capital world. On the other hand, exposure of the capitalist society was one of the leading plots of the Soviet literature in those years. The writers concerned about the future fate of the world nations in connection with Hitler's seizing power. Struggle against fascism plague and international reaction also found its reflection in the Azerbaijan literature. Ilyas Efendiyev seemed to be familiar with «Rot-Front», «Death chair» (Olum kursusu), «Madrid», «Revenge» (Intiqam), «Halt the despots», and «Oath», and other works with this topic written by the Azerbaijan writers of that period, and kept on writing on this topic successfully. In those works of the Azerbaijan writers published in those years, some social-political events happening in Germany in 30's, along with exploring the fascism as a terrible and dangerous event for the world nations, a vicious enemy of the human culture. High cultured, talanted people of the honest, industrious German nations were remembered with respect, Hitler's being a disaster not only for «the second-class» nations, but also for Germans themselves of the highest strata.

The plot of the young writer's story «Rebel of Henry», which was published in the war period of post-soviet Union nations over the fascist Germany, is also linked with Germany. The story is the most modern one and has much in common with the events happened in 90's of our century. If we replace the idea of Great Germany by the fictituous «Great Armenia», hero’s name of the story – Henry by any Carapet, the reader will have such an idea that it was written not in 40's but in 90's of our century.

The story describes that Hitler, who has poisoned the blood of the whole German people, makes the youngs to take up arms with his idea of «Great Germany». Before Henry's father also fought for «Great Germany» and died at the fronts of WWI. Now he has been sent to fight for «Great Germany» too. But he doesn't know what and who he fights for. Germany has become a nest of death, the hell for him. He doesn't want to shed unjust blood, he realizes the wrong, unjust war of Germans. The writer ends the story in this way: «…After Henry plunged the bayonet in his hand into the officer's breast, who commands. «Ahead!» the fighting-men of the gold army: «Shoot at us, comrades. You are right.» The hero's this step isn't made up by the writer, but it is the conclusion that most German youngs сome to.

Ilyas Efendiyev's «Unexpected love» was his second meeting with the readers. The writer describes in this story, written on the psycological style, how much a pretty girl loves an ugly, but a talanted young with rich inner world. The writer describes the appearance of his hero Hasan, who has been shepherding since his childhood, has seen all the life troubles, whose six brothers and father have been «cut like khangal»: «The tall boy was wearing heavily, but he was extremely ugly. He had a pockmarked face, the middle of his nose was flat like a saddle. His lips were stretched forward toughly, gruff and greyish hair forms an angle on his forehead and lie till his nose».

Getting to know the portrait of that character who is more deformed that V.Hugo's «Laughing man», it reminds us the description of Xudayar bey, the hero of the great writer J.Memmedquluzadeh. After drawing the appearance of the hero as a painter, the writer says: «Though he behaved rather calm and strict, we all admired at his extraordinary talant in a short time. He was the best mathematician and telegraphist. He could play with 40 good chessmen at the same time and won 90-95 percent. All lecturers envied at his fluent oratorical gift. He wore most elegantly of all, walked with straight head and proudly, and sat in the first rows at the theatres».

After informing about Hasan's some other positive features, he introduces us the second hero of the story: «As much as Hasan was ugly, as more as Gulare was pretty, her big black eyes were shining decidedly courageously, she had good-shaped thin lips, a smiling face, long curved brown hair. While she was walking upright ignoring everyone on her way, all the students followed her with their glances. She had an ardent desire of being the superior in everything. There is a lyric fluidity in the story and the writer ends his story, in an optimistic way with the inner-worlds of his heroes, their psycological moments, Gulare`s true, invincible love to Hasan, who thought «you don't absolutely need black eyes for loving somebody», her letter to Hasan saying: «Your great heart is the most precious of all for me. Don't deprive me from it, Hasan» and introducing us the happy mother, who is growing up her lovely child».

The true and pure love of 2 youngs was praised in the story «Unexpected love» as well as in his first story. Ilyas Efendiyev says about that story: «I haven't been of the opinion to argue about ugly-faced man's loving and being loved as some people think. Here my main goal is to show the firm belief in the existence of true love and its being able to do anything in the world.» Efendiyev's first collection of stories is the book «Letters from the village» published by Azerneshr. This book edited by a celebrated writer S.Rehman, finely and artistically arranged by people's painter K.Kazımzadeh includies 4 stories «Ukhajor», «Coarse boy», «Aunt Gizbez», «Clerk Iman» and together with one of the first literary success of the writer the novel «Letters from the Village». In these works the writer has written about the events he witnessed and noticed in a comic and satiric way and presented the social changes in a compact style. The people who are inactive and different to everything in the struggle of hew life with the old world, who aren't in step with life, who want to prevent from changing, life for the better the development, who are wrong in the solution of family-life problems couldn't avoid from the writer's reproach. The writer makes these people alike «straws on the running river» and shows that a man is afraid of touching them as if they are just ready to sting . In the first story of Ilyas Efendiyev the influence of J.Jabbarlı's literary career, especially the story «Furuze» is easily felt. The story consists of 8 letters written by the village doctor Ganbay to his friend, who lives in the city. The hero of the story comes back to the village again 14 years later, and writes about all the changes he has seen in the village to his friend in the letters. The writer creates interesting pictures using the letters not as the epistolary genre, but as a literary style. If on the first pages of the story we read about the changes in the village, the replacement of the old houses «collapsing when a cough touches them» by the two-storeyed stone, brick houses, asphalting the streets, electric lightening of the dark huts, the kulaks' being oppressed, generally the description of the village life, in the other chapters the writer describes the inner worlds of live man characters much more, he Zerife and Ganbay's love story, narrates «bey's daughter Zerife's fascinating herdsman's son Ganbay as a spring flower attracts a bee», her brother Tahir's beating, and insulting Ganbay, the failure of the 2 youngs' love. «As if that bitten, hurt love by Tahir's blows had gone away together with his face blood, but had lived only like a memory». The hero of the story recollects those days so: «I'm in the plain of Jıdır. The wind is blowing from fog-drawn Kirs. The stars are twinkling in the sky. Silence… The night and me. The night, the darkness… my heart is empty. I look to be in a sack in my clothes. Zerife has put money into my pocket for me to have a suit hugging me secretly». But the fire of that failed love hasn't put out, rising again 14 years later and ends happily. The parts describing all the event with lyric paints are the most interesting pages of the story.

Academician Kamal Talıbzadeh notes, «Ilyas Efendiyev came to the literature with his main topic – love. He didn't come to the literature as a talanted young describing love as all did, but doing it in his own way». Actually, the writer glorifies love as a poet in some works.

We also meet inaccurate, not so convincing descriptions together with memorable, interesting pages. At the end of the story, Zerife's shooting at her brother Tahir who escaped abroad, Ganbay's doubts about Zerife «may be she is my enemy» don't coincide with the previous descriptions. But the natural development of the events in the story, charming and effective description of Zerife and Ganbay's love cover up «the little» shortcomings of the story. The first book of the writer also includes different stories together with «Letters from the village». Though they were written at the same time, they were literarily weaker than it. It's true that in these stories the writer criticizes youngs of 40 years old «who are busying them selves in some where all the time», having a skeptic look at everything like Chekhov's hero in «Covered Man», who are afraid of marriage taking the idea «Getting married is not halva» («Coarse boy»), exposes the people who boast of tippling, win new-new tops, peaks who are lofly, arrogant like Suleyman «Ukhajor» (Snob-man); an educated man of the village, who goes to the cotton-field arraying himself, wearing a tie, carrying an umbrella for not getting sun-burn, idling and jeering, at the corners, despite of having a wife and 3 children asking one of the prettiest girl of the village Saray in marriage, having no idea about science and culture though he works as a teacher («Teacher Iman»). The lyric colours of the writer's literary painting are more bright than the satiric and humorous paints.

Along with all these, it is these stories that brought fame to young Ilyas Efendiyev who made his first steps in the literary career. They inform about the coming of a talanted young with his own word own style, who can make his readers wait anxiously, not satisfied with giving them an artistic taste, but also making them think. Sweet narration, live man characters, heartwarming nature descriptions were pleasing features of Ilyas Efendiye's literary career. On the other hand, the book «Letters from the village» found its way into readers' heart and became not «a book on the table», but «a book under pillow» because in this book smell of the smoke rising from Garabagh hamlets, the limpidity of water of Isa spring like an eye-tear, neigh of excellent Garabagh horses, fragrance of thymes on the mountain slopes were felt. İn early years of his literary work he thought more about life and fate of men of labour. Having driven benefit from celebrated writers' works on the village life, and continuing it with great skill and mastership Ilyas Efendiyev generalized the news and family-life shortages of the village.

Ilyas Efendiyev's first stories didn't digress from the literary criticizm. In those years a remarkable literary-critic scientist Akbar Agayev who made successful steps in the field of literary criticism notes about the book «Letters from the Village» that these stories are quiet different for their themes and ideas. A.Agayev, who was first to tell opinions about Ilyas Efendiyev, his tendency towards up-to-date events, who noticed well his clear and fluent language, shows that the contemporaneity of the themes in this stories causes their being read sweetly. Here the reader meets the men of today, the people of the society he lives in, friends and relatives he comes across every day. The literary-critic summarizing the virtues of the book, «These stories have the power of teaching, educating, promoting the man's development …. Patriotism, wath fulness, cruelty against enemy, new attitude to labour, new love, etc. are the main targets (points) in these stories» and finished his story so: «The book «Letters from the village» discloses his author as a talanted man who has a special and original way of expressing all the events. His future depends on how and in which direction this talant develops». Along with it, the literary-critic also showed the flows in Ilyas Efendiyev's literary career: «Ilyas' first striking shortcoming as a narrator is his being lost in senses and tendency towards to a sentimental style. It's true, he gives nature descriptions, characters too vivaciously. But he gives the life vital events in an intimate meaning flow». It didn't take 50-60 years to confirm A.Agayev's far-sighted opinions of «the writer's talant», «sweetness of his language», eccentric «original way of writing» about Ilyas Efendiyev. The young writer proved himself as an artisan who has an original hand of writing with his works written during the World War II.

The World War II brought a new theme – a theme of struggle against fascism to the whole literary process, as well as Ilyas Efendiyev's literary works. Ilyas Efendiyev had to address to our nation's historical past, legends and tales, and wrote some memorable, fine stories arosing hatred against the enemies. Here the writer didn't want to show directly the character's exclusive feat in the battle-field, but the changes it causes in man's heroic deeds psycology, moral world. «Nights of Happiness» «Front friends» «Financee of the Hero» «The tar was played» «A little poem» «Hey, mighty love» «Tale of hero and Nightingale» are such kind of literary works.

Ilyas Efendiyev has appealed to folk-love heroes and motives with the aim of upbringing the youngs in the spirit of patriotism, on the base of heroism traditions having been experienced for many centuries. In the folk-lore samples that were the results of the nation's intellect of thousand years the wishes, dreams of our ancestors, the history of struggle, love to motherland, hate to enemies, manliness, bellicosity, love to work, kindness, friendship, respect to adults and other best humane qualities are described. Here struggle between light and dark, evil and good, truth and lie is described. That's why the folk-lore has been the source of inexhaustible inspiration for all writers in all times, has given them the newest themes, which encouraged them to write valuable literary-works. The writer's «The Mountain of an Old Woman», «The Tale of Hero and Nightingale», «The Flood Took Away Sarah» are characteristic from this aspect. The story was the main genre not only in Ilyas Efendiyev's, but also in Abdulhesen's, Mir Jelal's, M.Huseyn's, A.Valiyev's, S.Rehimov's, A.Memmedkhanli's, Y.Azimzadeh's and other writers' literary activities. The themes of A.Valiyev's «Touchstones'», Abdulhesen's «Place of date», Mir Jelal's «Motherland Wounds», A.Mammedkhanli's «Ulduz» were taken from the war. In these stories the big and live war pictures aren't given, but the events happening in the battle-field and in the rear, the characters of warriors, general hatred against enemies, the men's moral world, noble humane characters-faith, fortitude, stick out chest against war's difficulties are described in an effective and live way. These stories have the power of mobilizing our people, especially the youngs to serve our motherland loyally, to be faithful in family and friendship, to display selfness and heroism in public work. In Ilyas Efendiyev's stories, unlike other writers' on the topic of war, we don't meet war pictures, sanguinary battles, the fightmen fighting face-to-face, freezing in cold trenches, we don't hear the sounds of guns. There is no comprehensively, artistically greated character of the soldier fighting in the fire-line here. This feature is vividly seen in the writer's stories «A Little poem», «Durna», «Tar», «Will of an old woman». But the writer keeps his own way of writing while creating his literary war-works. He puts the psychological worlds of men in the first place. He gives a special need to the changes in people's morality, disclosing moral qualities of the fightingmen, writing about public hatred against enemies. Sometimes the writer, who wasn't able to learn well enough the front life having difficulties in penetrating into the soldiers' inner world, doesn't pay attention to the natural development of the theme, the composion of the story, its educational importance. The story «The sin of Durna», written in 1941, is a bright example of it. In this work not meeting the day's demand, not making the people hate enemies, the events of no importance, the writer describes intimate relation between of the actress Durna, who was fighting at the front with the other actor.

If this theme was written in the other time, the reader wouldn't pay so much attention to this feature. But at the beginning of the war, so man-made theme couldn't be the plot for the story. After the marriage-life of 6 months Durna's husband Eldar goes to the front. A little time later, she falls herself into a strange man's arms…» Not thinking of how it will affect the fighting soldiers the writer finishes this story with an artificial sentence: «I wonder, will Eldar forgive her?»

Endless love to motherland, belief in the victory, close contact of the front with the rear are lively described in S.Rehimov's «The grave of the brother», M.Ibrahimov's «Statue», M.Hussein's «Flowers» Mir Jelal's «Sherbet», A.Memmedkhanli's «Icy statue» and other works. These features can't be found in the story «The Sin of Durna». The definite part of the works written by Ilyas Efendiyev in war years, are collected in the book «Clear-nights». Here the bravery of the soldiers fighting at the front, the moral world of motherland's people, belief in the victory, love to motherland, hatred and rage against the enemy are effectively given with literary colors. The stories «Hey, You, Mighty Love», «Tale of Hero and a Nightingale» are characteristic from this aspect. The writer shows that the war wins not only cities and villages, but also wishes and dreams, aims and intentions, leaves hearts alone. The story «Hey, You, Mighty Love» is about a bitter life of the soldier – the painter, who lost his eyes in the front-line…. The young painter has just got married. He paints his young wife's portrait, but leaves it incompleted and goes to the front as war breaks out. He can't take up his painting – his favorite work after he comes home as a blind man. Though Guler takes a special care of him, her noble treatment, he already feels as a burden in the family, grows pessimistic, and prefers committing suicide to living such life. On the eve of committing this horrible crime, dismal melody of symphony played by Guler, charming sound of «mighty love» prevents him from making it. «At this moment dismal melody was heard and suddenly music began telling a strange story: the boy was startled, stopped and listened to this story…» «The painter was listening in astonishment and anxiety. He saw a striking likeness between the glorifying feelings of marvelous music and mighty love which he wanted to express in his incompleted work of art». The writer shows that Elmar's young wife Guler completes his unfinished with her own painting composed symphony. In the story there is no description of the real war scenes which ruin the man's wishes and dreams, but the writer gives detailed descriptions of heroes' psychology, their inner worlds, feelings and senses they live in those days with great mastership. The language of the history is simple and short-spoken. In these years the writer often appeals to the folk-lore, connects the themes he writes about with our tales and legends, and presents them to his readers in a romantic-tale like way. In the stories «The Tale of Hero and a Nightingale», «The Flood Took Away Sarah», «The Hill of an Old Woman» we meet the legendary versions of real life events. In the first story the courage of a wounded, exhausted soldier, who's killed 7 men in an inequal battle and been found in the forest, is narrated. The nightingale sitting on the trees composes a song for the soldier's bravery. The soldier dies listening to this bird's wonderful song. This devoted bird sees that the soldier has fallen asleep and she puts the flower she's brought on his chest.

His friends are surprised at this fresh flower on his dead body. They bury him, and a year later a bush of rose grows on his grave. The nightingale on that rose sings her song mournfully.

The writer completes the story of 2 pages in the way: Since that time every summer nightingale has been singing on that lone solitary grave. Her songs speak no end of legendaries of eternal and mighty love. In the story «The Flood Took Away Sarah» the writer narrates quiet different story: When Sultan's wife is on death-bed, asks him once and again to keep an eye on their lonely child Sarah Soltan fulfills her wish with all his heart, brings up his daughter Sarah. The prettiest girl Sarah falls in love with Khanchoban, and they get married. He leaves his wife in Mugan and goes to summer pasture in mountains with his flock of sheep. At this time alien invaders attack their native land. A blood-thirsty Fateh wants to make Sarah his wife and promises Soltan much money instead. A respected person of the land-Sarah's father protects her and doesn't let the enemies take Sarah away. He kills her daughter throwing her into a raging river.

The story «The Hill of an Old Woman» written under the inspiration of the folk-tore for its theme has much in common with modern life. The shah (conqueror), who attacks the other courntry to occupy its lands, ruins the cities and villages, puts peaceful people to the sword, kills thousands of innocent people. While the blood thirsty shah is getting prepared to triumph his victory, a single-eyed vizier Yusif informs that his only child is ill. All the doctors of the country can't cure the patient. Only an old woman Ballı knows all the remedies for the diseases. She's brought to the king's palace. She says: «Don't worry. I'll cure your son». But all the fellow-countrymen hate this old woman for treating the king's son. The king asks the old woman what she wants for her great kindness. She answers that she will make such a medicine that both his son and he will be far away from all diseases after drinking it. The king drinks half of the medicine the old woman's made and gives the other half to the son Meliktaj. Unbearable pains overtake them after drinking it. «Why did you do it so?» the king asks: «I'm a mother too. And the hundred of innocent people you've killed also have mothers. I took the revenge of all» With the vizier's order the worriors cover up her locked hut with earth and bury her alive. A high mountain arises in this place and it's been called «The mountain of an Old woman» since that time.

The action disclosing the old woman's character, her patriotism, her hatred against the enemy make a good spirit in the reader. The writer opens the heroes' characters with great mastership, describes the characteristic features of the blood-minded king, cruel vizier, mischievous prince, and Ballı qarı (an old woman) with persuasive colours. The writer applauds the old woman's glorius death and finishes the story so: «At the end of the day, when the last beam of the sun set behind the clouds, a big hill arose on the old woman's hut and the rains hardened its soil. The next summer grey thistles with yellow thorns grew on the hill the winds and floods of the further centuries left no signs of the city ruins. A meadow full of golden tulips replaced it. The only memory of the old city was «The Mountain of the Old Woman». A spring has been spouting under it since that time. The passers – by of a long way drink it and suppress their heart thirsts…»

These stories written about 50 years ago haven’t lost their topicalities up to the present time. These stories of the writer remind our brave soldiers, who are fighting death and life, war with the Armenian fascists for our lands, courageous and honourable respected men, our epos and legend heroes – Javanshirs, Babeks, Koroqlus, and Gachaq Nebis and teach them to be brave and fearless like our heroes, to defend our mothers' and sisters' good name as they did.

S.Vurgun taking into consideration the dignity in Ilyas Efendiyev's first stories said in 1944: «We must listen to the pleasant sound coming from each literary work of our literature and show useful ways to the writer to improve their writings. There is an endearing sound and pretty rhythm in Ilyas Efendiyev's literary steps. And this must be taken as a new and precious step promoting the development of our prose and poetry».

Following the lives and literary activities of leading figures of the world literature, as well as the Azerbaijan writers we meet such an undeniable fact that the remarkable artisans not depending on which genre they write, are distinqrushed for their 2 aspects are characteristic for Nizami and Fuzuli's, Sabir and Mir Jelal's, S.Vurgun and R.Rza's, also for Shakespeare and Pushin's, Gorki and Tolstoy's, Taqor and Abay's, M.Twain and J.Vern's literary activities. These artisans, who give a great value to the educational importance of the word of art on one hand, recreate the folk-love heroes, who fought for the freedom of their nations, recollect their bravery and invincibility, teach young readers patriotism and heroism, and on the other hand, write literary-works proper to the children's and youngs' literary taste affecting their moral development. These 2 features are also characteristic for Ilyas Efendiyev's literary career.

In general, in views of the writers, who have significant good turns in the theoretical literature and in the development of children's literature are notified that, «It is difficult to write for children. Its specific features require from the writer studing the children's world profoundly along with getting scientific knowledge and inborn talant. With our studing the interest, curiosity, aesthetic taste of the children of different ages it's impossible to direct them to a certain target, to develop their individual tendencies. People's writer S.Vurgun in his voluminious article «Let's Write Finne Works for Our children» stresses time and again to his writer collegues how responsible and difficult the writing for Children, and how important glorifying the children's life and nature is. It is so because the artisan writing for children must take into account their age, taste, perception, thinking along with knowing the children's world and psycology. Doctor of pedagogical sciences prof. Camal Ahmedov writes: «The works written for children propagate humanist ideas, form their personalities, give noble feelings, and knowledge about the society and natural phenomena to the little readers, widen and complete their information in this field. It's not casual that, M.A.Sabir, A.Sahhat, S.SAkhundov are celebrated writers in our children's literature, their noble traditions have been enriched by remarkable Azerbaijan – soviet writers». Though the writing for children has some difficulties, in modern Azerbaijan literature there is not such a great writer who hasn't written some works for children. Ilyas Efendiyev isn't children's writer in the history of our literature, he was written some interesting stories for children. He wrote such kind of stories not in the whole period of his literary activity but in 50's and after it. The writer's stories for children are collected in the books «In Reserves», «Stories», «Turaj Was Singing in the Cornfield». «A Lilac Tree», «Grandpa Almurad», «Hunt of Gazelle», «Uncle Murad's Delight», «By the trace», «Turaj was singing in the Cornfield» «Our Pasture Neighbour» are distinquishable ones among his children stories. The themes and plots of these stories are colourful. There are interesting stories of different spheres of life, heroes of different characters in these stories. The language of these little stories describing village-life is simple and fluent. The writer tries to rejoice their hearts, to cause them to think and excite. The writer knows well enough that little and underage children are more interested in natural phenomena and the animal world. That's why he gives more descriptions of these topics in his stories. Ilyas Efendiyev looks at the world with the children's eyes, glorifies honest people and describes the beauties of the native land he walks on, speak to the children in their language proper to their psycology and imagination in these stories. Simplicity, clarity, compactness are the main characteristics of these stories. A prominent writer M.Huseyn writes in one of his stories: «The first and main goal of the children's literature is to arouse deep love to man's labour and creative work. Ilyas Efendiyev pays much attention to the depiction of this point in his stories written for children. The heroes of these stories dedicated to the childhood memories, the description of real life events, are simple brave, curious, fearless, little children respecting and helping the adults, enjoying the beauties of the nature.

In those years while Ilyas Efendiye was teaching in the village after graduating the Pedagogical Institute, he was able to learn profoundly the children's psycology, life, dreams and wishes. It is the children's writer who knows well enough that «it requires great mastership from the writer to rejoice, excite, gladden, sadden the children, to cause them to think». Ilyas Efendiyev's stories written for children find way into the litter readers hearts easily, and it is due to his profound pedagogical knowledge and teaching ability. Long before writing stories for these smart little readers he was able to know deeply the world of children. Ilyas Efendiyev who was brought up with the folk-lore works, who listened to no end of fales and stories told by his granny and mother in his childhood, «read many tale books till his school-years», «at school was not satistied with the knowledge his teachers taught» has proved himself as a writer, who knows quiet well the children's psycology, their interests and tastes with his children's stories. Ilyas Efendiyev's writing stories for the children is connected with S.Vurgun's article «Let's Write Fine Works For Our Children». In this article S.Vurgun after talking about the condition of the children's literature, problems of its development, he calls our writers to write new works for our little readers. S.Vurgun wrote: «Child is a man! He has all features of adults in his frisky, constant happy and free character. To think, to feel, to love to quarrel, to cry, to laugh, to get angry, to remember, to dream, to hope, to wish to do favour, to get respect – all these features exist in the children's world. We mustn't forget that while we are speaking and writing to a child, we are speaking and speaking to a mann. To S.Vurgun's ming callous, dull advice light up in child's mind as a usual spark and superficial feeling goes out immediately. Therefore, and child should understand literature not by making thunderous speeches, but by the way fascinating his heart with and man and nature. The children must love their native land they are walking on, be proud of their native people and lands, selfless heroes, who gave their lives as a sacrifice for the freedom of our nation. The literature must give these feelings to our children!» S.Vurgun was in earnest about educating the children, who will be scientists, poets, composers, painters and so on in future, he calls the writers to write more valuable works for them. S.Vurgun's article «Let's Write Fine Stories For Our Children» was published in newspaper «The Communist» in the months of September-October of 1944.

It was those years that Ilyas Efendiyev had already published his book «Letters from the Village», after having written some stories on the war theme, he had begun writing stories for the children. Ilyas Efendiyev's also read S.Vurgun's this article and taken it as a good sample for himself. His main stories written for the children appeared in 50's are collected in the book «In Reserves». In these stories Ilyas Efendiyev giving singnificant importance to the description of the village life, which he knows more closely, closeness of men of labour to the soil, the children's contacts with the world of plants and animal, protection of the rivers and lakes, etc. teach patriotism, love to motherland, great and pure feelings of being proud of the motherland to the children.

The writer choosing some interesting facts and events he met in his childhood as a theme for his children's stories on one hand, shows by means of literary pictures how bravery, boldness, courage, honesty, carefulness etc. beautify the world of children, on the other hand, he tries to estrange the children's world from bad human features such as telling a lie, being lazy, naughty, coward, envious. The theme of labour takes a significant place in the writer's stories. The writer guided by the idea «there is no beauty without labour» tries to impress this idea on the children too. The heroes of the stories «Grandpa Almurad», «We're Moving to Summer Pasture», «Uncle Murad's Delight», «By Trace» etc. are working-people. Describing and glorifying labour, which made those people working at the labour-front proud, Ilyas Efendiyev calls the children to diligence and efficiency practice. In the story «Uncle Murad's Delight» the reader reads the live portrait of man of labour «which looks like a bronze statue». «Uncle Murad» is a tall, broad-shouldered, neither fat nor thin, muscled as strong as a strap, swarthy man of 48-50 with big and black moustache. There is a scar on his left eye brow; he always wears old fashioned top-boots with pointed toes, french and trousers of black broadcloth, big flat-top, papakh (hat) of silver skin. He always puts his whip with a shaft of gazelle's leg into the top of his right boot. There is always a heart-warming smile on his face. All his teeth are white and strong. Everyone in the village carries out his orders willingly because everybody loves him as a father and doesn't want to lose this love». The writer connects Murad's being such a respectable man with his hard-working and business-like character. Generally speaking, as the writer knows well enough that the children love listening to the talks about natural phenomena-raining, thundering, flooding, solar and linar eclipse; talk on the animal world, and thereofore, he devotes some of his stories to this topic. Little reader gets perfect information about described sheep, dog, horse, wolf, gazelle, turaj, bear etc. and interesting natural phenomena. In the story «A Lilac Tree» the writer touches upon the important duties of schoolchildren – to plant trees and green grass, to look after trees and flowers, to protect the birds. Ilyas Efendiyev suggesting the idea of being intent and considerate for nature's beauties, critisizes naughty children Nadir and Jafar, who've broken the nightingale's nest cutting the branch of the lilac tree. Teacter Aslan who's witnessed this unpleasant event says to the children: «We all come to this wonderful world to make it more beautiful, we weren't born to destroy its beauties». This sounds as a main idea in the story. Ilyas Efendiyev gives more descriptions of cloud-covered high mountains, sheer cliffs, pastures full of sheep and lambs, multi-coloured carpet-like meadows, abundant corn-fields and glorifies his native land in his children's stories. In some stories, he touches upon the problem of educating the children. From this aspect the story «Our Pasture Neighbour» isn't like the writer's previous stories. Here the shortcomings of the family upbringing are criticized earnestly. The writer knowing the great role of family in the children's upbrining lightens up imperfection of this problem with satirical and humorous colours. Here ridiculous situations given, in this story cause not only the children to think, but also make their parents more uneasy. This story is about the adventures of doctor Safiyev's family in the rest place in Turshsu, his wife Zerife khanum, her mother, and 12-13 year old son Gubush (Gurban). The writer creates with great mastership live and solid characters of them, as well as the characters of raspberry-seller Hasanali and scientific worker Ami in this story. The satirical and humorous moments of the story is related linked to Gubush's meal. The granny and mother see the meaning of the life in meals, they think of nothing else, but meals the whole day. Gubush's meal scene is the writer's criticism-object in the story. «The aunt went towards the tent walking like a goose, a bit later her kind voice was heard inside:

– Eat, my darling, don't be crazy.
Zarifa khanum (Mrs. Zarifa) said severely:
– You will eat, everything, thats all!
Khala asked softly:
– Why did we come here? Eat my dear…
Mrs. Zarifa threatened the child by beating her hand on the chair:.
– You will eat, that'll do!
Khala begged: Gubush, eat please, for my sake.
– You will drink this kisel (kind of starchy jelly), OK! – Eat, please, for you'r father's sake.

The writer presents us the components of Gubush's breakfast: ten big and new eggs, a bowl of honey with cream, a big cup of cocoa mixed with eggs, ets. For dinner: «First he was drunk a plate of chicken – soup, then he was eaten a plateful of oily pilaf with half a chicken on it, after it he was given a soup-plate of dovga with small meat-balls and a jug of 0,5 litre filled up with kissel. After kissel fresh rasperries, summer-pears and water-melon. Gubush ate and drank all of them obediently. After fruit he was given some cakes (sheker-choreks) and fruit-juice and so on. Gurban was made to eat and drink all of them by his mother's orders, granny's entreaties, with tears in his eyes. And such a scene happened repeatedly every day».

The writer also presents us the main heroes of the story: «Khala with Zarifa khanum (Mrs. Zarifa) – were busy in cooking meals all day. Either they ate or they fed Gubush. Either they spoke about meals, or they cooked meals. But mother and her daughter had different characters. Mrs. Zarifa wasn't as talk active and curious as her mother». The writer describes so the difference between mother and daughter, their own specific features.

«When Mrs. Zarifa was apart from the kitchen, she parted with life and society. But when lunch, dinner or supper time came, she became spirited, her face and eyes were shining shrewdly, as if she got pretty and inspired. She was eating continuosly. She was eating without paying attention to neither me nor her husband, without interfering in our talks. The thigh of the chicken, yellow amber-like slice of melon, Hasanali's big red raspleerries picked up in the mountains, picked out pieces of boiled mutton looked great among her fat fingers». How the writer admired beatiful scenery and flower, how beloved one was delighted with his sweetheart's eyes, so Mrs. Zarifa enjoyed of titbits among her fat fihgers. Mrs. Zarifa's mother was more live and original as a literary character. She talks, shows off, doesn't get tired of praising his son's job, fortune: «She talks: my son has got 8 rooms, they all are covered with carpets, he is teaching in 4 institutions and earns 15 thousand manats (roubles); hundredsof patients are waiting in a queque; they eat honey, cream, chicken pilaf, turkey kebab every day». But all those make the reader disgust the heroes of the story.

Ilyas Efendiyev filters all the stories and facts he describes through his mind chooses the topics, and presents them to the readers taking into consideration their age, perception levels. He speaks to his little reader in the children's language.

Ilyas Efendiyev turns out to be a painter-natured artisan capable of making good nature descriptions, sceneries along with being a talanted children's writer. We read in the story «In the Reserves»: «It was the first time that I had seen Haramı. Everywhere was covered with poppies. They were glowing red-hot in the bright light of spring sun. All the grass, even grey thorny thistles bloomed. Each of these flowers had its own beauty. It seemend as if thousands of diamonds, rubies, coral beads were thrown about on the lying green velvet and they were burning in the sunlight. Motley butterflies, black-dotted, coral-coloured lady-birds, honey-bees' transparent wings were flying about over the flowers, sometimes either an oriole or a hoopoe littered up into the air in front of our horses».

Theoretical views of Ilyas Efendiyev, who's written interesting stories for children, on the children's literature are also of great importance. He gives a speacial attention to this matter in his different articles and speeches. «Let's Write New Stories For Children», «For Educating Young Generation», «Great Humanist», «Remembering You», «Let's Write Worthy Works For Our Children», «For Works With Lofty Ideas», «Unforgettable Writer, Great Humanist» etc.are bright examples of such kind of articles. In these articles the writer after speaking about considerable changes in the children's literature, publications of some writers' and poets' hundreds of poems, stories, novels, he stands on the themes' limitations in our children's literature. He writes that some important themes are absolutely forgotten about. He says: «Why our children's writers write less about interesting lives of our soldiers, who are standing on guard borders of our country? How can we forget about our children's interests in this life, reading such kind of stories with great enthusiasm?»

It's well-known that, the works written on life in the army are of significant importance in educating children. These works teach them good human features, such as bravery, courage, self-sacrifice, heroism, help our children's growing up as our future heroes. After putting forward this idea which's very topical even at the present time, the writer reveals that the topic of labour in the children's literature is less described and glorified, there aren't enough noteworthy works depicting children's school life, our historical past is faintly lightened up, weak development of literary works, especially dram as depicting brightly senses of sincere friendship and stresses it as the pressing preoblem to be solved in the children's literature.

Ilyas Efendiyev also shared his valuable thoughts on some writers' literary activities, who promoted the development of children's literature in Azerbaijan, such as M.A.Sabir, A.Shaiq, S.S.Akhundov, J.Mammedquluzadeh, M.M.Sayidzadeh, M.Rzaquluzadeh, M.Dilbazi, Z.Jabbarzadeh, G.İlkin, T.Elchin and other men of lettres. In the article «Remembering You …», which Ilyas Efendiyev wrote on the occasion of S.S.Akhundov's 90 th anniversary, he not only shows his love to S.S.Akhundov's literature career, but also his attitude towards his great ancestors Sabir's and Mirza Jalil's literary heritages.

One of the unforgettable writers who has written good literary works for our children, who has had unexampled good turns in the development of the Azerbaijan children's literature, whose literary career Ilyas Efendiyev has great love and respect to, is A.Shaiq. This love of this writer finds its reflection in some of his articles, speeches and memories. Ilyas Efendiyev begins his big article about a venerable writer so: «In every nation's cultural development to make a new step forward, to say a new word, to open a new way, have always required great labour, courage, and heroism. This new word tellers've forged ahead forcing their way through stupid demands of conservative brains, ignorance, chaos of egoism and this has arizen from his attitude towards his nation. Actually, they haven't thought about any self-sacrifice. It's impossible to imagine them apart from their nation's fate. What they've done is for their nation's happiness and development. They've had no idea that with these activities they've erected a monument for themselves. A.Shaiq is one of the most uncommon personalities in the history of our literature as a notable man, writer, and enlighter. In the article Ilyas Efendiyev analyses.

A.Shaiq's literary career thoroughly and stands on the story of 2, 3, 4 rages equal to a novel «Letter Didn't Reach» comprehensively, notes F.Kocherli's role in A.Shaiq's getting matured as a writer and shows that A.Shaiq's great role as an artisan is sure to be his activities in the children's literature. He's the first prominent founder of this branch in the history of the Azerbaijan literature. The little works he's written for our children are the perfect examples of our literature.

Even today children are reading his works with pleasure, and they will always read them. The writer's great profound knowledge of children's psycology and nature plays a decisive role in writing these stories. There is fascinating simplicity and charm in these stories».

Ilyas Efendiyev also gives his own opinions on this venerable writer's drama, analyses his some plays on the level of a scientist – researcher, and finishes his article with such an opinion: «We first opened our eyes to this world with A.Shaig's poems and tales. The years will pass by, new-new generations will come, and A.Shaig will be dear for them as he is for us». The plenum on the children's literature was held in the Azerbaijan Writer's Union in 1966. It was not casual that, Ilyas Efendiyev made the main report in this plenary session. It was so because Ilyas Efendiyev had written some scientific – theoretical articles on the pressing problems of culture, literature, especially the children's literature with interesting stories for children. It's necessary to note that in his report Ilyas Efendiyev had a look at the way of development and contemporary panorama of the children's literature, gave all – round scientific analysis of the literary works written for children. Ilyas Efendiyev shows justly «The Azerbaijan children's literature was founded by the artisans, such as M.A.Sabir, Mirze Jelil, A.Shaig, S.S.Akhundov, they brought into the children's literature themes of «respect to public work, hate against exploitation, oppression, preference to public work. They enriched the children's literature with new characters and new topics». Then the writer appraises the literary works of remarkable representatives of modern children's literature – M.M.Seyidzadeh, A.Shaig, G.Ilkin, T.Elchin, Kh. Alibeyli and other artisans, speaks about success of their literary careers, doesn't deviate from showing the shortages of their literary works. Here he seems to be a scientist researching problems of the children's literature. He discloses some striking shortcomings and insufficiencies in the children's literature, investigates ways of eliminating them.

According to the writer's considerations, the striking problems of the children's literature are the followings:

1. Topic Limitations.
2. Small number of memorable child characters.
3. Poor description of our historical past.
4. Simple illustrations of scientific – technical innovations in the literature.
5. Superficiality of children plays.
6. Low standard of artistic arrangements and publications of the literary works for children.
Ilyas Efendiyev's stories favoured him to win high respect as a writer. We also totally agree with the following idea, of one of the articles printed on the pages of the periodical press, on the occasion of his 80 years anniversary: «Greatness and talant of the writer isn't measured with the number and volume of the literary works he's written, but their artistic value and strength of meaning. From this point of view Ilyas Efendiyev is a happy writer. He's won the right of taking his decent place in the history of our literature with his matchless stories on some respect gaining topics along with his tales, novels, and plays».