Would you think you know for sure how Cinderella earned her ball gawns? And what about their origin? Well, and could you tell what was the true cause of Sleeping Beauty’s sleep? And once I ask – do you know the exact number of wolves, who lost their lives in the story of Little Red Riding Hood? Maybe, just maybe, dear friends. For the original Grimms’ tales were dimmed by so many retellings and adaptations by now, that it is truly worthy to read them once again in their genuine form. That is why we took the opportunity of being it 200 years after their first publishing and we are glad to give you the best choice of the genuine Grimms’ fairy tales. The book is decorated with marvelous illustrations by famous artist Adolf Born and its breathtaking graphic design crowns this outstanding publication of all time classics. See also other titles from the section The Best of Classics.

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.

The English version of popular Three Dads and Mum is now available as an iPad publication. The funny "storytelling" book for iPad has quite well known plot: We gave three famous Czech writers M. Viewegh, M. Reiner and P. Šrut the task of writing about Mum, the most magical being under the sun. The writers met in a famous Prague literary café and created the concept of 3 stories. These stories capture the Mum at 3 different stages of her life. This genuine and very carefully prepared iPad publication has 64 pages, over 60 illustrations. So rather then another average iBook, Three Dads are specific and entertaining app using words and pictures in very original way. You will have great fun reading it together with your own children, but for sure the stories speak in their own language also to the adult readers.

„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.

“If you think there are no good stories about mums, well, let me tell you – you're quite wrong. All you need to do is go back a bit in time, and then a bit further and a bit further still, and watch your mum get smaller and smaller until she's altogether a little girl. A little Polly, or a Lizzie or, let's say... a Janie...”

Three famous Czech writers – M. Viewegh, M. Reiner and P. Šrut – were given a task from us. They had to write a story about Mum, the most magical being in the world. Those writers met in a famous Prague literary café and created there a concept of three stories. These stories capture the Mum at three different stages of her life. First one describes how she actually happened to be a mum, the second tracks her when she’s undergoing bravely the challenge of being an adult mum and the last one focuses on her children following in the wake of her own childhood. All the stories are told from a tender, yet ironic perspective of no one else then – a dad. You will have a great fun reading this book together with your children – for you can be sure that the stories have much to say also to adult readers. And you always can take it as a motivation to the most intimate and cheering family story telling.

Avez-vous entendu parler
des énigmes de la reine de Saba et
des pouvoirs d’Élie le prophète?
Savez-vous pourquoi Dieu a fait
la brebis douce et le renard rusé,
pourquoi la lune brille moins
fort que le soleil?
Pour découvrir ces mystères et
entendre les légendes les plus
fantastiques, ouvrez grand vos
oreilles et laissez-vous emporter
par la voix du conteur juif.

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.