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Cats' Season of Disappearance

Behiç Ak

Editor

Müren Beykan

First Books
(ages 3-8)

“Cheerful Stories” Series

96 pages
130 x 195 mm
Coloured illustrations

1st edition 2009
38th edition 2020

ISBN: 978-9944-717-13-7

Behiç Ak, loved by readers of all ages and famous with his cat stories, is once more telling a story about a neighbourhood with his humorous style. In this book , the master author describes people through their relationship with cats and makes the children to think about differences, living together in a harmony. Like all the other books of Behiç Ak’s “Cheerful Stories” collection, children love this book full of joy and surprises.

Overview

Little Sevgi who feels responsible for everything that happens in the world has a cat named Titrek (Shaky), who is as timid as her. Titrek (Shaky), disappeared suddenly on June 18^th. And what is more, blunt Mrs. Nazan’s cat Arsız (Cheeky), apathetic Mrs. Nurten’s cat Buz (Ice), light footed runner Ibo’s cat Kırlangıç (Swallow), Mr. Suat’s cat Miskin (Idle) known for his slowness, and the cats of several other people in the neighbourhood vanished on the very same day. Where all these cats that with very similar characteristics to their owners, had gone? Little Sevgi started to investigate.

Behiç Ak

He was born in Samsun and studied architecture in Yıldız University and İstanbul Technical University. He’s a well-known cartoonist, author, illustrator and documentary film director. He illustrates daily cartoons for the Cumhuriyet Newspaper since 1982. His cartoons were exhibited in several countries like Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. Besides his plays Separation (Ayrılık) and Building (Bina), his two plays named Fault Line (Fay Hattı) and City for One (Tek Kişilik Şehir) were staged in Europe and attracted big interest. The documentary film he produced and directed in 1994, named The History of Censorship in Turkish Cinema – Black Screen (Türk Sinemasında Sansürün Tarihi devamı için tıklayınız