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The Trees, the Roots and a Boy
Little Adam can suddenly hear what the trees tell each other across the continents. It happens on his visit to California with his dad. Full of excitement he hears how many-thousand-years-old sequoias talk to each other and he can listen to stories told by trees all over the world: the Wollemi pines in Australia, the…
Číst dáleH2O and the Treasure of the Mad Eye
In this episode, the three friends have to deal with the sly criminal Professor Vulpes again, who works with tricky tricks—this time in order to rob the central bank. Petrified objects that one of Vulpes‘ cronies sells at a flea market set the trio on the trail. Hugo, Hubert and Ophelia discover underground rooms, where…
Číst dáleH2O and the Secret Water Mission
H2O is not only the chemical formula of water, it is also the name of a secret club founded by three schoolchildren: Hugo, Hubert and Ophelia—two H and one O. But what about their secret? Hubert is a born inventor and he accidentally succeeds in constructing a miniaturizer from his mom’s old hairdryer. So the three…
Číst dáleRoches and Jinks
Roches and Jinks are funny shaggy-haired characters looking like a cross between lovable scamps playing hooky and layabouts frequenting a dirty railway station snack-bar. Roches, a tall, skinny guy, and Jinks, a small, plump girl, are definitely not your typical good guy types. Before they meet, Jinks just sits on a sidewalk, counting cars passing…
Číst dáleJO537
Josef is a 12-year-old boy who likes to play computer games. Nothing too strange about that, right? Except that things he has seen in a game, start appearing in real life, and the game continues in Josef’s dreams. He is no longer sure what’s real and what is just virtual. Thankfully, he has his sister…
Číst dáleThe Amazing Adventures of Florentin Flowers, the Righteous Pirate in the Service of Madame L.
Florentin Flowers, a sheltered boy, has been kidnapped by the pirates. All of a sudden he finds himself at sea under the command of the cruel captain Bloody B. But this horrible mariner has a soft spot: he loves good stories. And that is Florentin Flowers‘ chance. He has to retell all the famous books…
Číst dáleCross-Eyed Jim’s Coffeehouse
Can the desperadoes of the Wild West be domesticated by reading literary classics? Is it possible to understand one’s own life through the reading of Moby Dick, The Count of Monte Cristo, Romeo and Juliet or Winnetou? The Czech librarian Boženka does her best in her readers’ workshops at Cross-Eyed Jim’s Coffeehouse. Until one day the…
Číst dáleSkyscrapers
Skyscrapers are quaint buildings that reach into the clouds. Inside them there are a great many rooms, a great many people and even more stories. Things happen in them that would never happen in a small house. Readers of the book will be taken to New York and San Francisco, where young heroes Emma, Lucy…
Číst dáleCrevices
Crevices, nooks and crannies: all of a sudden, they start appearing everywhere – in the walls and ceilings, underneath the stairs, on the ground. People take notice of them, but only little Matilda plucks up the courage to crawl into one of them. And then another one. And then a secret passage underneath the church……
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