I Buy Second Hands (Eskiler Alırım)

Preschool Picture Story Book, 30 pages, 2007 ISBN: 978-975-07-0870-1, 3 to 5 years, Illustrated by Mustafa Delioğlu

Pınar asks her mother for an organ of her dreams. Can one buy an organ by selling the old things, which have been lying under beds and in cupboards for years?

The musical instrument of grandmother’s childhood, mother’s broken bicycle, the old French dictionary, father’s long-forgotten fishhook, dusty toys... How do all those things suddenly become so precious that they cannot be sold? Pınar is not the only child who cannot fulfill her dreams. The second-hand-buyer knows a way to make those children meet with each other...

Cumhuriyet Book Review (literary supplement) - October 2007

Distribution: National (Turkish)

Period: Weekly

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