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Tombiş Maskeli Baloya Katılmak İstemiyor

Chubby Doesn’t Want to Join the Masquerade

Behiç Ak

Editor

Müren Beykan

I recognized you from your mask!

First Books
(ages 3-8)

“Chubby Books” Series

48 pages
150 x 200 mm
Coloured illustrations

1st edition 2018
4th edition 2020

ISBN: 978-605-9405-49-2
Barcode: 978 605 9405 492

Created by the master author of fun stories, “Chubby Books” series has reached its fifth title. In this book of the series, Ak is pointing out that the personal characteristics cannot be hidden behind the masks. Memo, who’s excited about going to the masquerade and his close friend Chubby who has issues with masks, are inviting the children to notice the details. Opening the door to philosophical readings “Chubby Books” encourage early age readers to ask questions and create their own stories.

Overview

When Memo learns that there will be a masked ball that evening, he gets very excited and runs to his close friend Chubby. He was dreaming to wear such an interesting mask that nobody would recognize him! However his friend was very disappointed and Memo had to convince him in the first place…

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