★Rights sold: Simplified Chinese, Macedonian.
★2018 Typographic Excellence Award by Type Directors Club of New York.
★A set of wonderful activity books, inviting children to do mathematic problems while learning interesting facts on animals and vehicles.
★The full English translation is available.

The series includes 5 titles: Animals, Little Creatures, Transportation, Vehicles, Plum Tree

Numbers and the Plum Tree tells us the story of a neighborhood where the garden is turned into a parking lot. One morning they cut down the trees including our main character, a plum tree. Through the eyes of 16 characters who live in the neighborhood, we see how different people, animals and objects perceive this change. The caterpillar misses its lunch, the woman who planted the plum tree gets sad, while a boy simply enjoys watching construction cars and a businessman doesn t even understand what is missing. There are simple math problems in the story such as How many plums did the tree have? or How old was the plum tree? This picture book brings together the theme of environment and biodiversity with math. While reading the story of the plum tree, children will solve simple math problems. All the illustrations are designed with numbers.

Murat Celep s designs have appeared in various publications and internet platforms including Novum, Etapes, Logolounge, Counter-Print Books, and The Dieline. In 2012 he was one of thirty designers invited from forty-seven member countries to renew the Council of Europe s corporate identity. Currently, he creates books for children, while continuing to pursue design work at his Istanbul studio.