The Effect of Child-Friendly Lift-the-Flap Story Books on the Creative Thinking Ability

Child - Friendly Lift - the - Flap Story Books is a textbook with instructional materials integrated into the story and the pictures. This study aims to determine the effect of child - friendly lift - the - flap story books `Kayanya Negeriku` to the students` creative t hinking abilities fourth grade. Quasi - exp erimental research design types of nonequivalent comparis on - group design. The research population is fourth - grade students at SDN Pleret Bantul. The cluster random sampling technique was used to determine pre - existing samples without random assignments, so that 28 students in fourth - grade of SDN Pungkuran were o btained as the experimental class and 28 students in fourth - grade of SDN Putren as the control class. Data coll ection through pretest and post test using creative thinking test instruments that have been tested for validity and reliability. Data were analyz ed using paired samples t - test, gain test and N - gain test. The results showed that child - friendly lift - the - flap story books `Kayanya Negeriku` affects the creative thinking abilities of fourth grade elementary school students.