Children's Books (ages 8-12) • Novel

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THE HEART OF THE STORY

Ömer Açık

The story of those who want to choose their books on their own...

Ömer Açık, who is loved for his compelling storytelling, opens up our book choices and reading tendencies to discussion. While questioning the “pressure to read” applied to children, he tells a school story around the sweet conflict between the “stubborn old” and the “brave new”. The novel, which conveys the eye-opening and liberating power of reading, reminds readers of all ages of the importance of giving innovations and change a chance.

Overview

İlginç, whose grandmother is a member of “The Association of Adults Who Couldn’t Live Their Childhood”, wants to establish “The Association of Those Who Don’t Like Books” in his classroom. He is sure that he will easily find members for his association because of the boring “books to read” list prepared by their teacher Ms. Yeter. However, with the arrival of their new Turkish teacher, Ms. Bahar, reading books is no longer a must, and book summary notebooks are shelved. The variety of the books suggested by Ms. Bahar excite the class and are loved very much. All hell breaks loose when parents start questioning the new recommendations this time…

AUTHOR

Ömer Açık

Born in Adana in 1980, Ömer Açık graduated from Hacettepe University, Department of Classroom Teaching. He worked as a teacher first in a village of Adana, then in Mardin and İstanbul. In his first novel for children A Station Called Violet (Menekşe İstasyonu, 2015) he tells the story of solidarity in a neighbourhood. In My Dad’s Hilarious (Benim Babam Ömür Adam, 2015) Açık tells the story of a child with unlimited imagination who wants to wander with the winds. His novel Blazerless (Montsuzlar, 2017) questions the concept of […]
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