Children of The World
Cover illustration for a children’s magazine. I don’t have the titled version so I cropped the empty space above.
Best Friends
This is a story about loving and caring about our animal friends. Some pages are omitted.
Street Animals
For a children’s story about caring for street animals. Stray animals is a huge issue in Turkey. Cats and dogs are released to streets by their uncaring irresponsible owners, and sometimes they’re poisoned by public authorities who wants to get rid of them.
The Woolgatherer
This is a poem about a man (or a boy) called Mahmut the Woolgatherer. He wakes up early in the morning before everyone else, and paints the sky blue. He sews the sea when it’s torn. And sometimes he just woolgathers, because that is his job. =) The poet was probably describing himself. I think it’s a witty and smart beautiful little poem. One just envies Mahmut’s job..
Just like our hands
From a poetry book for children. This is kind of a surreal poem. I illustrated it as it is. It goes like “Because animals can’t talk, how wonderfully they might be thinking, I wonder, just like our hands. Before starting to read, one should water the flowers..”
We have a nursery rhyme about a little child promising a ladybug if it’ll fly, his/her mother would buy it new shoes. That’s why the ladybug on the upper left is dreaming of shoes =)
Inside
From a poetry book for children. “Window, the window is the best. At least you would see birds flying past, instead of looking at the wall.”
Child Bird
From a poetry book for children. It’s something like “It was a bird, all red. They hung flowers on each of its feathers. It did not fly. It was a bird, all green. They hung a child’s ribbon on its feathers. It did fly..”
Bees
From a poetry book for children. It’s something like ”You suck the apple blossoms, you fill all the honeycombs, now grab the hem of spring, fly buzzing in the air bees..”
