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Hopping Stories

Gürsen Özen

Editor: Müren Beykan
Illustrator: Mustafa Delioğlu

Fifteen short stories, each more colorful than the other!

In her first book, Gürsen Özen is putting into words the hopes, longings and heartbreaks of children with many witty and cheerful details from daily life. The book offers a joyful reading experience for all ages. The colourful moments of friendship, play, family, neighbourhood and school days. Having worked as a teacher for long years, author’s attention to the different characteristics of protagonists from different regions, her natural and flowing language are worth noting. With colourful stories prioritising the children’s relations with their teachers and parents, invite the reader to think, dream and make up their own stories. Many emotions like the excitement of a seeing a balloon seller crossing the street, the fear of sleeping in a camp tent for the first time, the passion for catching the stars in a science experiment, wait the readers of this joyful book.

Overview

Fifteen stories in the book: Missing Sea While In the Ocean; Bunny Gang; Quarter Gold Day; Deserted and Lightless; Raining Roses, Flying Birds; White Cheese With Holes; Chocolate Voiced Woman; Hopping Voices; Children Carrying A Star; Feathery, Wingful Pink; Aquamarine Blue; Plop! We Fall Into The Game; Balloons and Anger Bubbles; My Suntouched Raincoat; The Gugukkus.

AUTHOR

Gürsen Özen

She was born in 1949 in Susurluk, Balıkesir. She graduated from the Turkology Department of İstanbul University. Özen began her teaching career in Şavşat, Artvin and continued for many years at Fethiye High School, later working in private, and preparatory schools. Alongside her work as a literature teacher, she actively contributed to social and cultural projects focused on children and young people. Özen brought together stories of childhood in all its forms in her book, Hopping Stories (Seke Seke Uçtu […]
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