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Alaaddin’in Geveze Su Boruları

Alaaddin's Chattering Water Pipes

Behiç Ak

Editor

Müren Beykan

This “cheerful story” of Behiç Ak is mirroring neighborhood and communication!

First Books
(ages 3-8)

“Cheerful Stories” Series

76 pages
130 x 195 mm
Coloured illustrations

1st edition: 2008
29th edition: 2020

ISBN: 978-9944-717-06-9

In this book, Behiç Ak is telling the interesting and humorous story of Alaaddin Bey who’s always listening the water pipes. While making fun of “gossiping” as one of the most common communication methods used in neighborhoods, Behiç Ak is on the other hand criticizing the prejudices caused by the gossips. This is a pleasant story about having an identity while being in accord with the society. Enriched with cartoon like colorful illustrations, the story gives children clues about the functioning of local administrations.

Overview

Alaaddin Bey’ never speaks but always listens. His best friend is Memo who can talk for hours even about very a simple subject. All the neighbors are wondering about Alaaddin Bey who’s every morning watching the sun rise sitting on a bench facing east, and every evening watching the sun going down sitting on a bench facing west. They all think that he’s a lazy idler. According to the kids he’s spy, even maybe an alien. One day when the water in the neighborhood is cut off, everybody learns who he is and what he does…

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