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The Crow Who is in Love with Blue (Blue Series)

written & illustrated by Aysun Berktay Özmen

The CrowAysun Berktay Özmen carries her love of nature into the children’s books that she writes and illustrates. In the Blue Series that consists of three story books and an activity book, she tells the stories of three different animals.

THE CROW WHO IS IN LOVE WITH BLUE is about a young crow who is in love with the color blue and cannot stop himself from carrying any blue colored objects he encounters into his nest.  Continue reading

Tıkır’s Blue Winter Tale (Blue Series)

written and illustrated by Aysun Berktay Özmen

TIKIRAysun Berktay Özmen carries her love of nature into the children’s books that she writes and illustrates. In the Blue Series that consists of three story books and an activity book, she tells the stories of three different animals. TIKIR’S BLUE WINTER TALE is about young Tıkır, a squirrel and his mother Mıkır. They go on an unforgettable blue winter adventure from which Tıkır will learn a life lesson.

The readers will be fascinated with the magical illustrations of Aysun Berktay Özmen as well as the simple and beautiful stories as they wander through the pages of these books.

Activity Book (Blue Series)

written & illustrated by Aysun Berktay Özmen

Crow ActivityThis activity book offers a variety of scenes from the Blue Series to develop creativity. So children can write new stories through fun activities such as filling up the crow’s next with blue items. There are also 12 drawing templates including a fish, flowers and other shapes such as clothing that can easily be cut and drawn again.  Continue reading

You are not a Robot (Green series)

written & illustrated by Aysun Berktay Özmen

Green series 1Here is the perfect series for spring! Green Series includes three books and each one is a heartwarming animal tale set in spring. YOU ARE NOT A ROBOT is a story about a raccoon who has many chores to do. So, he tries to invent a special robot to get rid of doing his chores. Aysun Berktay Özmen started her career as an art teacher. In 2010 she won Tudem Literature Awards called “Write, Draw, Paint Greeting to the Books!” with her book named The Gardener Mole and the Termite Kıvırcık. Continue reading

Rabbit Rocket (Green Series)

written & illustrated by Aysun Berktay Özmen

green series 2Here is the perfect series for spring! Green Series includes three books and each one is a heartwarming animal tale set in spring. RABBIT ROCKET tells the story of a rabbit who loves the way frogs live and thus imitates frogs by dying his fur green and attaching bouncing springs to his feet.

Aysun Berktay Özmen started her career as an art teacher. In 2010 she won Tudem Literature Awards  “Write, Draw, Paint Greeting to the Books!” for her book Continue reading

Tikir’s Strawberry Day (Green Series)

written & illustrated by Aysun Berktay Özmen

Green series 3Here is the perfect series for spring! Green Series includes three books and each one is a heartwarming animal tale set in spring.

TIKIR’S STRAWBERRY DAY is the story of the squirrel Tıkır. It is his birthday and he wants to throw a birthday party but everybody is saying they cannot attend as they have other things to do. Who will eat that big strawberry cake his mom made?

Aysun Berktay Özmen started her career as an art teacher. In 2010 she won Tudem Literature Awards “Write, Draw, Paint Continue reading

Redhouse English Learning Set 1

written by Çilem Artun & illustrated by Neşe İnan

Redhouse Learning set 1This first installment of Redhouse Learning Set introduces the little polar bear Polly to young children who are starting to learn English. The first set consists of five books: My Numbers, My Clothes, My Body, My Toys, and My Animal Book. In each book, little polar bear Polly first teaches children a group of related vocabulary, and then in the second half of the book,  some exercises are given to practice what have been learned. Neşe Inan’s illustrations are ideal to keep young children interested in learning basic English vocabulary. Continue reading

Redhouse Learning Set 2

written by Çilem Artun & illustrated by Neşe İnan

Learning Set 2

Building upon the vocabulary learned in Redhouse Learning Set I, this second set consists of five books that continue teaching essential English vocabulary to children. The five books of this set are titled Fruits and Vegetables, School Time, The Weather, Where is Polly?, and Not Now Polly! By this time children already know the little polar bear Polly. In these five books Polly introduces children basic English vocabulary that will be useful in everyday life and in school.

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Redhouse Learning Set 3

written by Çilem Artun & illustrated by Neşe İnan

learning set 3In the third and final set of the Redhouse Learning Set series, children can now learn new grammatical structures and how to read and write longer sentences. The series invites us into Polly the Polar Bear’s house! The five books of this set are titled Polly’s Living Room, Polly’s Kitchen, Polly’s BathroomPolly’s Bedroom and Polly’s Garden.

Set of 5 Books / 170 x 195 / Beginner / Each 24 Pages / Redhouse Publishing

 

Once Upon Many Things

by Lupe Estevés & Maribel Ganso

Once cover

People are naturally a compilation of contradictions and opposite points, a mix of feelings, concrete ideas and abstract concepts – we are a fantastic collage. From this conclusion came this story loaded with words and images inspired by the world of children.