Indians fell down onto their beautiful land through a hole in the sky, when they were trying to chain the sun. Don’t you believe it? Good, because the story is a bit different indeed. But you just read it and you’ll find out even more. You will learn how they got from their totems the most precious gift above all, and you can even set on a warpath with the nation of Dakota Indians, or just go calmly fishing with Tinglits. Hiawatha – the chief of Iroquois – will show you how to spread peace among the fighting tribes and then you can simply enjoy Cheyenne joker Vihio and let him entertain you with his funny affairs. Be sure you’ll get bewitched by this new volume of tales and myths of the original North American tribes. This book – actually a long time bestseller translated into many languages – is illustrated by well known Czech surrealist Josef Kremláček, who developed simple, friendly and optimistic, yet symbolic and magically ornamental style of accompanying the stories for children with the visual counterpart.

In the Jewish stories the good don’t defeat the evil just because of the principle of good and evil itself. We have to understand first what it means. And in this book it is rather like that we are simply taught through the stories what or why is good and what is evil in the terms of the Jewish law and Jewish ethics. This is a very neat and witty way how to become aware of existence of such principles as morality and ethics and what can be a role of a man framed with them. Leo Pavlát, as a director of Jewish Museum in Prague, tells the traditional tales of Jews with outstanding understanding and sensitivity, and illustrator Helena Ryšavá found the way how to capture this feature of the storytelling...

„If you captivate me by your story, I’ll save your life.“ – this is what king Conal proposed to Black Bandit in one of the most famous tales from Ireland. Great storytelling is to be alive. For Celtic culture storytelling was extremely important, thus the collection of Celtic tales brings extraordinarily strong experience of adventure, magic, love, brave and honor. Feel invited by the poetic bards to the world of elves, corrigans, ogres and wizards. The whole volume, containing 19 tales from Ireland and Scotland, Brittany, and Galicia, is enriched by abundance of illustrations created by Czech illustrator Renáta Fučíková.

Autrefois, le puissant roi Grallon gouvernait la vieille Cornouaille, en Bretagne. Ses sujets, mais également tous ceux qui l’approchaient disaient qu’il n’existait pas de meilleur roi au monde. Le moindre pèlerin fatigué trouvait place à sa table, au même titre que le seigneur le plus noble. Le roi aimait par-dessus tout s’entourer de chanteurs et de poètes qui savaient beaucoup de choses sur le vaste monde et célébraient dans leurs chansons le passé et le futur, l’amour et la peine, les hommes glorieux et les villes célèbres.

“I’m going to tell you an unbelievable story about an elephant that could run faster than a leopard! Maybe that leopard is still alive somewhere in Africa. And maybe you’ll hear it roar. But you’ll never see it. It is invisible.” The “Melancholy Elephant” and 29 other fairy tales by the internationally acclaimed Congolese writer will acquaint young readers with an African world full of wonders.

To marry a snake, to become a palm tree, to fight a battle against the mountain... how incredible and far the Vietnamese tales seem to be for our eyes, yet how entertaining and understandable. More then we would guess – even after reading Grimms’ tales or traditional Russian or Celtic tales – those stories are still full of unexpected breaks and steps in the plot, much more funny and crazy many times, sensual and mystical. The book is filled with the sensitive, elegant but also rough and full-blooded pictures created by Tereza Ščerbová who truly captured the strange beauty of Vietnamese folklore.

Our collection contains 26 Russian traditional folk and fairy tales, stories which are often said to be fascinating thanks to their full-blooded, magical, heroic and mysterious mood. In the book you will find great tales of adventure and enchantment, animal fables and also typical Russian funny “short-stories”. For sure you’ve heard about the heroes, sorcerers and witches like Fenist the Bright Falcon, Baba Yaga, Father Frost, Kostey the Immortal, Maria Morevna, Princess Frog. If not, don’t hesitate to slip into their magical world. And the others – feel invited to take such a beautiful remembrance.

C’était au temps où le bouc était gendarme, le moineau ministre et le coq petit juge. Et le vieil aigle, le tsar avisé, régnait sur tout le monde.
Le loup vint trouver l’aigle, s’inclina très bas devant lui et dit :
– Puissant tsar, j’ai faim, faim à en pleurer, donne-moi à manger !
– Pourquoi te donnerais-je à manger ? Si tu es le loup, ce me semble, c’est justement parce que tu es capable de chasser toi-même ta proie.
– Puissant tsar, au moins conseille-moi quelle proie chasser.
– Là-bas, paît la jument du pope. Va et dévore-la ! Le loup remercia grandement Sa Majesté l’aigle et s’en fut pour dévorer la jument du pope.
– Jument du pope, je vais te manger !
– Comment ça, tu vas me manger ? s’étonna la jument du pope.

Do you know of these djinns, strange geniuses, who can immediately transform a beggar into Sultan? Have you ever put your eyes on such an enchanting beauty or heard such a singing sweeter than honey? To meet these mysterious characters and discover their amazing stories, to enjoy unimaginable and fantastic mood of this colorful and strange world just open your ears carefully and listen to the voice of the storyteller Moroccan…

Come to visit exotic countries, meet mysterious beings and miraculous animals and particularly kinship family of Olympic Gods with their virtues and weaknesses. The best and most beautiful myths and legends of Ancient Greece retold by Eduard Petiska have been translated into many languages.

This collection of Chinese fairy tales seeks to capture at least some of the flavour of the traditional literature of this land of many cultures. The stories it contains have been told for centuries by people of Miao, oroqen, Manchu, Han, and many other ethnicities. Though they may contain fewer miracles than their European counterparts, these Chinese fairy tales have characters who show more self-sacrifice. here too, true love knows no bounds, and the longigng for happiness gives the heroes the strength to triumph over powerful dragons, cunning demons, and sly spirits.

Collection of traditional folk stories from India – newest volume into our book series Fairy Tales from around the World – is in produce. Please, come back for details soon.