3 books
Nalan Aktaş Sönmez is a pedagogue, family counsellor, and children's writer whose stories connect emotional development with values education. Her training in child health and education led to work in preschool management, special education, and the creation of more than 150 books and interactive learning sets. Marie the Mole places a small animal character at the center of an approachable story for young readers, while Timmy and His Class turns school life into a setting for relationships, shared rules, and social growth. Sönmez favors concrete situations over abstract instruction, allowing children to recognize a feeling or choice through character and consequence. Marie the Mole is the most direct entry into her gentle narrative method; Timmy and His Class shifts the emphasis toward classroom belonging, cooperation, and the social meaning of everyday decisions.