Children’s and Young Adult

Have you ever been to Fairy-Tale Land? If not, come and explore this marvellous country with a genuine reporter. Visit strange cities such as Vlašské Klobúky, inhabited solely by hats, or Hrochův Mlýnec, where snowmen are built instead of statues. But you’ll learn much more than that – for instance, when children in Fairy-Tale Land go to school and when not, which cars are driven by giraffes, or what a cockadoodle clock looks like. Witty stories enhancing chidren’s imagination also touch, in certain places, upon our contemporary world, in a slightly parodic fashion. Thanks to their simple language the stories are suitable for children from age 3. Ivan Klíma is a prominent Czech writer whose large work comprising many genres has been translated into many languages. His The Crowing Clocks is now re-published 47 years after its first edition from 1965. Ivan Klíma has enlarged it with new stories and the book now has brand-new illustrations by Hana Pavlátová, Klíma’s daughter.