Chytrolíni z Hloupětína – Žáček Jiří (2023)

After the Scary Fairy Tales for Little Cowards, Witchy Fairy Tales for Little Wizards, Clever Fairy Tales for Little Know-It-Alls, and the collection of Aesop's Fables, poet Jiří Žáček and painter Adolf Born present another book for young readers. It's called The Clever Ones from Hloupětín and is inspired by the stories of the quirky inhabitants of the fairy-tale town of Hloupětín, comical blunders and fools who believe every nonsense and are easily tricked by any charlatan. You'll learn how they grew cakes, how they caught the wind in bags for calm days, how they built a bridge on a hill, how they celebrated Carnival with an escaped bear, how they invented a submarine, what medicine they used to become wise, how they dealt with a headless knight, how they extended summer and shortened winter, how they kept whales in the pond, how they overcame the devil, how a pig got into the coat of arms of Hloupětín, and you'll experience many more adventures with them. But as the author reminds us, the more foolishness the Hloupětín neighbors engage in, the more we begin to sympathize with those desperate souls, and eventually, their struggle against a malicious fate starts to impress us. Aren't we their descendants? Just look around, open the newspapers, or turn on the television to see that we too live in an era...