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Behiç Ak

Editor	Müren Beykan
Illustrator	Behiç Ak
Graphic design	Huban Korman

Who wants to be an astronaut? What about becoming a cat?

First Books
(ages 3-8)

“Chubby Books” Series

56 pages
150 x 200 mm
Coloured illustrations

1st edition 2014
14th edition 2020

ISBN: 978-605-4603-58-9

Behiç Ak invites all children to dream about future and follow their dreams in his new and third book of “Chubby Books” series. Following up the previous stories How Long is My Hand? and The Many Ways of A Stone, Memo continues to search for answers of various questions and witness the endless nature of childhood dreams while his close friend Chubby stays indifferent. The story encourages children to think about possibilities and differences and also opens the door to future philosophical readings. With colorful illustrations and creative reading possibilities, the series offer both children and adults an attractive way to think.

Overview

Memo, bored of being a child, tries to decide what to become when he gets older. Everybody has a dream and an idea about what to become. His friend Chubby, on the other hand, has the strangest ideas!

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