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Depending on your point of view and the situation you are in, the author's book tells children about fear. It's a basic human instinct, and although we all have it, each of us is afraid of something different. Fighting our own fears is sometimes harder and sometimes better, and young readers will le...

Mila often gets lost in her thoughts about animals and doesn't pay attention. Peter is too small for his age and cannot sleep because he is afraid of everything. Katka is overweight and would rather just read detective stories. Franta was born with bad legs, he walks on crutches and everyone feels s...

Petr Sís comes after the book The Wall with another illustrated story from the history of Nicky and Vera. Filled with typical watercolour paintings and pen drawings, the book tells the story of young Nicholas Winton, who finds himself in a situation where others are in danger and, like a true hero, ...

The Mole, a mythical creature closely linked to the nature reserve, inhabited by cheerful people in colourful sweaters, spends his days singing, swimming in the river Mízivka and having casual conversations with stones. Sometimes, for fun, they blow clouds that then rain down on the surrounding land...

The editor-in-chief of ABC magazine, Zdeněk Ležák, and the artist Štěpánka Jislová have jointly attempted to present the life story of Milada Horáková to young readers using a comic book form. Their effort to responsibly and comprehensively cover the fate of one of the leading female personalities o...

The friendship of text and image is an age-old affair, but Petr Nikl takes it literally in his book Word-view and shows the world that books do not have to have only illustrations and text, but that they can also be linked. The interweaving of short rhymes, puns or subtle cascades of gradually chang...