JOURNEY TO UTOPIA (Book 1)
(The order of the series: Journey to
Utopia, Journey to Dystopia, Journey to Androtopia)
MAIN THEMES: Science and technology,
climate change, nature and the universe, rights and liberties, technology.
THEMES: Nature and the universe,
global warming, climate change, empathy, addiction to technology, love for
animals, parallel universes, moral values, production, consumption,
productivity, healthy living…
THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOK: Mavi who
believes he has everything he needs, suddenly finds himself in a fantastical
journey. Beautiful as it is strange, he finds himself in a utopia where peace,
goodness and wisdom rule. In his unusual journey full of surprises, he is
accompanied by a beautiful girl with orange locks of hair named Kitap. As he
forms a friendship with Kitap, Mavi starts to change for the better. This is
how his journey to “utopia” that continues throughout the other books of the
series first starts. Mavi isn’t aware of his wrong actions because of where he
was raised. With the events of this universe, he realises the wrongdoings of
his own universe, he has an awakening. Going on a journey within himself, Mavi
is the living proof of how people can change if they truly want to and spread
that change around them. The entire journey of the series lasts 18 hours.
THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK: To show how
serious climate change is; to draw attention to subjects like technology
addiction, unhealthy diets, overconsumption and respecting living
creatures
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JOURNEY TO DYSTOPIA (Book 2):
MAIN THEMES: Science and technology,
climate change, nature and the universe, rights and liberties, health and
environment.
THEMES: Global warming, natural
disasters, empathy, technology addiction, healthy diet, parallel universes,
future predictions…
THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOK: The girl
named Kitap who is a parallel universe explorer, is sent to Mavi’s planet for
an internship. Finding herself in a much different universe than she’s used to,
doesn’t return to her beautiful planet, the failure makes her even stronger.
Because of the ignorance of people, the world is completely different in this
universe. But Mavi is trying to return the world to its old state, starting
from an island. Knowing that Kitap is sent to his planet, saves her in a moment
when she least expects it. Kitap successfully completes her mission and returns
to her own universe.
THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK: To show how serious climate change
is; to draw attention to subjects like technology addiction, unhealthy diets,
overconsumption and respecting living creatures
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JOURNEY TO ANDROTOPIA (Book 3)
MAIN THEMES: Science and technology,
climate change, nature and the universe, rights and liberties, health and
environment.
THEMES: Artificial intelligence,
parallel universes, global warming, natural resources, technology addiction,
change, empathy, emotional intelligence, human rights, future predictions…
THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOK: To put an end
to global warming and to humans damaging the environment a global pandemic is
started by artificial intelligent robots: A pandemic of technology addiction.
While people are staying home and spending all their time in the virtual life
application, carbon emissions throughout the planet are reduced to zero and the
world returns to its livable, beautiful old state. Accidentally arriving here
from a parallel universe, Mavi realises this situation. Suspecting that the
predictions of the famous cosmologist Stephen Hawking on the artificial
intelligence technologies came true; works together with the robots, even if it
is hard at first and stops this application that is violating human
rights. Humans are now conscious. The
Humanity Song, integrated to the virtual life application as a part of the
hipno education at the end of the book, can be listened with a QR Code.
THE
PURPOSE OF THE BOOK: To inform on what kind of a world we will be facing in the future if humanity
continues to treat earth selfishly.
ACADEMY OF STRANGE SCIENCES (Book 1)
MAIN THEMES: Rights and liberties, virtues, individual and society
THEMES: Friendship, solidarity, self discovery,
differences, children’s rights, ambition, empathy, emotional intelligence…
THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOK: To not disappoint his mother who
sees him as a exceptionally perfect child, Nadir succeeds in entering the
Science Academy where only the smartest children are accepted. But he feels
extremely out of place in this school. He realises that these children who are
raised only to be successful are losing their emotional intelligence and
therefore can’t notice the strange occurrences happening around them. Nadir
sees that the dean of the Academy Mr. Üstün, controlled by his ambitions and
obsessions, is involved in unethical business and tries to solve the mystery of
these strange events.
THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK: To draw attention to the fact life
isn’t only made up of exams and personal growth isn’t limited to school
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ACADEMY OF STRANGE SCIENCES 2 GENOME (Book 2)
MAIN THEMES: Rights and liberties, virtues, individual and
society
THEMES: Friendship, genetics, self, differences, ambition,
empathy, emotional intelligence, animal rights, children’s rights…
THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOK: A new year has begun in the
Academy and all of the negative parts of the preceding year is left in the
past. A new dean has been appointed to the Science Academy. The new dean Ms.
Asuman has a completely different personality than the previous dean and is
liked greatly by everyone because of her cheerful, positive character. The
children soon realise that Ms. Asuman who is also a world renowned genetic
scientist actually has very different ambitions.
THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK: To help raise wise children who
don’t get tricked by flattery, sweet words and exceptional success stories and
who don’t hesitate to question things.
ERASER’S SPIRIT
MAIN THEMES: Rights and liberties, virtues, individual and
society
THEMES: Courage of ignorance, gluttony, curiosity, courage,
self confidence, contemporary art…
THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOK: Yaprak’s mother doesn’t want her
to get a pet. Just as she’s given up her dream, Yaprak meets an eraser’s
spirit. They find themselves in a situation with the
insecure sister and know-it-all uncle. With an uncle dressed as an Arab tourist
and the extremely
casual attitude of the eraser’s spirit, they find themselves in a humorous
detective journey.
THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK: To spread awareness to the fact
that we should never put honesty and justice aside to put ourselves in a
beneficial position even when the opportunity that presents itself is
extraordinary.
DIARIES OF THE UNDERGROUND
MAIN THEMES: Rights and liberties, virtues, individual and
society
THEMES: Search of alternative living areas, genetics,
confidence, courage, friendship, future predictions…
THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOK: A fantastical adventure in the
dangerous and mysterious passages of the
underground
They’ve never seen a single star, in fact they weren’t
aware that stars existed. The ground and the sky was one and the same for them.
Rocks were everywhere, everywhere was rocks. No moon, no stars, nor the sun that rises to end the night… The
clouds were slippery, wet rocks for them and the mischievous fireflies skipping
from corner to corner were their stars…
It’s been centuries since life over ground ended and all
living creatures have since lived underground. The Molelings, humans, rascals,
hohobuddies and others… These creatures are able to live underground because of
the interventions scientists have made in their ancestor’s genes.
Orkan loses his way in a school trip finding himself far
from his city, goes to seek out legends. That’s how he starts to face reality.
As his journey goes on he finds himself in the center of a battle between good
and bad.
THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK: To inspire to think about how
alternative living areas could be created by scientists if humans bring an end
to life overground.
THE APARTMENT OF NOTES ( Book 1)
(Order of the series: The Apartment of
Notes, The Chess Apartment)
MAIN THEMES: Individual and society,
love.
THEMES: Helpfulness, music, note
education, theatre…
THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOK: Cookie Girl bakes delicious
cookies and enters the Apartment of Notes to give them out. In the Apartment,
she meets the fun gang of notes. Grandpa Do walking around with
a pen in his mouth, Grandma Re bragging about her teeth and shouting out “ree!”, Madam Mi obsessed with cats and her phone, Fa the messy kid, Aunt Sol the manager,
the lively La Girl, Ti who is fed up
with bees and the grandchild of Grandpa Do, the bookworm High Do… Cookie Girl learns all about notes as she gives the
cookies out to the residents. You can
scan the QR Code to listen to the Apartment of Notes song composed by the
author and sing along.
THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK: To introduce the scale of Do
major with the adorable story, act out the play at the end of the book and
learn more about the story and the Do major scale by listening to the
song.
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CHESS APARTMENT (Book 2)
MAIN THEMES: Individual and society,
love.
THEMES:
Helpfulness, chess, art, music, theatre…
THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOK: Cookie Girl bakes delicious
cookies and enters the Chess Apartment to give them out. Uncle
King the pasta addict, the vise Queen
Brother, fluffy Bishop siblings,
energetic Rook siblings, the Knight
siblings
who can fly and little rascals the Pawn Kids… Cookie Girl learns all about chess pieces as she gives the cookies out to the residents. You can scan the QR Code to listen to the Chess
Apartment song composed by the author and sing along.
THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK: To introduce the chess pieces
with the adorable story, act out the play at the end of the book and learn more
about the story and chess pieces by listening to the song.