White Ravens’99/Turkey/77186
Akal, Aytül (text)
 Delibas Yetkin, Ayla (illus.)
 Ip bacakli uzayli çocuk
 (The tall, thin boy from outer space)
 Levent, Istanbul: Uçanbalik, 1997. 16pp
 ([Aytül Akal’dan masallar dizisi / Çikolata masallari] ; 1)
 ISBN 975-8039-67-9
 Candy - Nutrition - Cockaigne (Fool’s paradise)
 A little girl would rather eat nothing but sweets and drives her mother to despair when all her attempts fail
 to make healthy foods appeal to her daughter. Then all of a sudden a tall, thin stranger appears who takes
 the little girl away to his home in outer space where everything is made of sweets. Soon she is fed up with
 all these foods. She wants only to return home and never hear the word »sweets« again. Not unlike the
 Greek legend of King Midas, whose greed caused 
 everything to be turned to gold, or the landscape of 
 a fool’s paradise, this uncomplicated, illustrated story playfully deals with the theme of excess and
 saturation. (4+)

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