Pavel Čech

The Great Book Mystery

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Petrkov, 2014, 84 pp
9788087595350
Foreign rights:
Dana Blatná Literary Agency
http://www.dbagency.cz
blatna@dbagency.cz
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Children’s and Young Adult

A tribute to the author’s best-loved boyhood titles, this picture book also serves as homage to the treasure trove of children’s reading and, well, some delicious cheeses. The amusing tale of the brave cat Alfred from volume one and mouse Quido from volume two, which volumes happen, by sheer coincidence, to inhabit the same bookshelf, has an almost detective plot: who has moved illustrations from one book to the other and back again? While careful readers attempt to solve the case, they receive numerous reading tips as the author pays tribute to illustrations from the likes of Karel Franta and his comic book Malý Vinnetou /The Little Vinnetou/, or Josef Čapek’s children’s classic Jak si pejsek s kočičkou dělali k svátku dort /How Dog and Cat Made a Cake/. Given Čech’s sources of inspiration, we can rest assured that his selection will include Foglar and Fischer’s Rychlé šípy /The Fast Arrows/ or Riou and de Neuville’s engravings from Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Velká knižní záhada
Petrkov, 2014, 84 pp
9788087595350
Foreign rights:
Dana Blatná Literary Agency
http://www.dbagency.cz
blatna@dbagency.cz
Goodreads rating
84.8% (Rated by 17 users)