Sedmička - klukovská dobrodružství na řece – Zapletal Miloš (2024)

With Pajda on a boy's adventure on the river. For the first time, readers encountered Pajda from the Pardubice house U Jonáše and his adventure in written form in September 1971 in the children's magazine Pionýrská stezka. It began to be published in installments (and for cutting out) and accompanied all issues of the biweekly until August 1972 (volume 2, no. 1–24). The novel was then titled Island of Friendship by its author Miloš Zapletal, and the text was accompanied by photographs – as can be seen on the next page in the excerpt from the first installment. Several years later, the story was published in book form (Olympia, 1976; picture in the lower left) under the title The Seven, with the subtitle boy's adventures on the river and dedicated to the Pardubice Water Seven. That is, the canoeing club into which the plot is set. Miloš Zapletal was a member of it as a scout after World War II. At the time of publication, the scouting organization was not permitted, so there could be no mention of the scouting background of the club in the novel, yet many readers of that time read between the lines the unwritten. The book was illustrated by Jiří Petráček – and it is no coincidence that Jiří Petráček is once again the illustrator of our new comic adaptation nearly half a century later. With the second edition of The Seven and with a new...