Children’s and Young Adult

Anyone with a taste for Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories will enjoy the configurations of Radek Malý’s imagination. These seven tales from the kingdom of live creatures and the land of seemingly lifeless minerals, who come to the Great Mother to seek advice (or find their own solutions to troubles very similar to problems experienced by people) are gentle, wise and contain a pinch of non-intrusive advice. We learn how beavers got their flat tails, why swarms of flies are no longer ruled by queens or why trees don’t talk (“at best they hum”). We can only regret that man, proudly beating his chest as the master of all creation, has long since forgotten to address his wishes to “Nature the Wanderer” through whispering them into a hollow willow. And it is man and woman – both big and small – at whom the stories’ ubiquitous wit is aimed, reminding them of Nature’s beauty.