7 books
Feridun Oral (born 1961) is a Turkish children's writer and illustrator whose picture books let images carry as much narrative weight as words. When the Moon Came Down turns the night sky into an intimate encounter shaped by wonder and gentle suspense. A Friend in Winter places companionship against a cold landscape, allowing warmth to emerge through action rather than explanation. Grandpa's Book of Daydreams moves through memory and imagination, while The Red Apple gives a small object an expanding social life as characters meet around it. Oral's animals and people communicate through posture, distance, colour, and repeated visual details; the page often adds an emotion the sentence leaves unstated. When the Moon Came Down shows his quieter, lyrical pacing, whereas A Friend in Winter brings friendship and seasonal atmosphere into especially clear focus.
