Fuat Sevimay’s Hişt Hişt (Psst Psst) and Hayal Kurmak Bedava (Dreaming Is Free) take their place on the shelves in January under the Mundi Çocuk imprint. In Hişt Hişt, every page of which is filled with the sounds, colours and imagination of Istanbul, children witness the vitality of art, literature and history; in Hayal Kurmak Bedava, they set out on a playful exploration of how we can go beyond our own limits through imagination.
“The sounds of Istanbul are waiting to whisper their stories to you.”
Psst! Psst! Sait Faik is calling to you. “If you know how to listen, books will talk to you,” he says. “If you know how to see, you can bring the places described in books to life in your imagination.”
Fuat Sevimay’s Hişt Hişt invites readers on a journey of discovery through the magical streets of Istanbul. For those who listen to Sait Faik’s voice, books speak, the city comes alive and imagination knows no bounds. Stretching from Altıyol to Haydar Paşa’s house, from Sultanahmet to Hagia Sophia, this adventure is woven from the sounds, colours and rhythm of Istanbul.
Hişt Hişt, brings children together with the city, with literature and with the power of dreaming.
“The power that erases limits: imagination.”
Thanks to their teacher Ebru, Kerem and his friends discover a very different kind of power this year: dreaming! Every morning they close their eyes for just five minutes and travel to faraway lands; sometimes they become archaeologists in the middle of the desert, sometimes they meet famous writers and painters, and they even come up with inventions that will change the world. At the end of these fun discoveries they understand the most important truth of all: we can go beyond our own limits through imagination.
In Hayal Kurmak Bedava, Fuat Sevimay offers children a story that inspires, nourishes creativity and, on every page, reminds us of “the power of dreaming”.
