Iva Procházková

Don’t Be Silly, Christopher, and Climb Down!!

Kryštofe, neblbni a slez dolů! Kryštofe, neblbni a slez dolů!
Kryštofe, neblbni a slez dolů!
Albatros, 2004, 54 pp
Awards:
 2005 Golden Ribbon Award – Literary section: Literature for children
Children’s and Young Adult

In the story of a single evening the author describes school-boy Christopher’s inner conflict. He gets into an argument with his best friend Alan, who inadvertently says aloud what Christopher is most afraid of: that his father will never return to him and his mother. The unmentionable is out and the boy solves his trauma by demonstratively running away to a high rock above the village. It is cold, it gets dark, and the adults come to make him come down. None succeeds but his friend Alan – and the friendship is renewed.

Kryštofe, neblbni a slez dolů!
Albatros, 2004, 54 pp
Awards:
 2005 Golden Ribbon Award – Literary section: Literature for children