This paper was written to analyze children’s character in a novel by using the Addin Cognitive Psychological framework. Research was done on an award-winning novel from Hadiah Sastera Perdana Malaysia (HSPM) in 2018, Novel Budak California which was authored by Mass Ruhaiza Ali. This novel was analyzed by using a cognitive psychological approach to ensure the characters played in the novel would be able to nurture the readers with good characters and praiseworthy qualities. This is because the characters established in a novel can be made as an indication to evaluate the good or bad behaviors, actions and speeches that may contribute some moral effects to the readers’ character formation. Thus, children’s book resources must be filtered properly as so the generations to come can be nurtured with full of wisdom and parted from inappropriateness learned through reading. Hence, the employment of Addin Cognitive Psychological framework propounded by Othman Muhamed (2017) that underpins the correlation between cognitive thinking, qalb, aqal and nafs would be able to ascertain the character in a writing suitable or serves the benefits to the target readers. This approach also is agreeable to analyze every individual character by elucidating further on how certain actions and behaviors are formed. Therefore, the research finding has affirmed that the main character of this novel was established properly as a child and that would be an exemplary figure to all the readers.
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