Children's Books (ages 8-12) • Novels

Şaşkın Cengâver
Cengâver, The Bewildered Hero

İsmet Bertan

Editor: Müren Beykan
Illustrator: Necdet Yılmaz

A book that offers a joyful and unique reading experience!

İsmet Bertan combines the characters and tales of traditional stories in a modern style and takes children on a journey full of fun. The breathtaking, hilarious adventures of Cengâver who is always determined to keep his promises and is responsible yet naive, guarantees to make readers laugh.

Overview

Cengâver who is good natured and naive, is at the same time equally mischievous and lazy. He sets out on a journey “to experience the real world” by the order of his mother who thinks he will never grow up to become a decent man. He meets with lots of people, both good and bad. Thanks to the magic gavel given to him by a mysterious creature (Camgöz) he rescues, Cengâver becomes braver than ever. His journey seems aimless until he reaches the Land of Cash. Here he unwillingly agrees to marry Melike Hindiba, the ugly daughter of the Sultan of Cash, and has to go on a journeyto find the dragon with two headsand bring back its eggs.

AUTHOR

İsmet Bertan

He was born in 1959, in a small village of Manisa. After studying Turkish Language and Literature in the university, he worked as a teacher for a couple of years. He moved to İzmir afterwards and worked as a documentary program producer and director in TRT (Turkish Radio Television) for many years. His first children’s novel Speedy Tosbi (Hızlı Tosbi, 2005) was published together with its picture book Little Tosbi Looks for His House (Minik Tosbi Evini Arıyor, 2005) in […]
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