Bořík & spol.

Every good kid is a loose cannon. And four of them is a disaster squared! There were five of them - no, actually only four, because Godfather is a despicable nerd. Bořík, Aleš, Mirek and Čenda from the elementary school in Holešovice, next to Stromovka, which they consider to be their turf, don't even need the magic earpiece of Mach and Šebestová. All they need is an innate propensity for mischief. Of course they also like their parents and the teacher, but despite all their efforts it always ends in trouble, more comically rewarding than the Foglar girls and Kája Marík. Let them read the rhodocaps under the bench, just as the Grandmother of Božena Němcová is being discussed, to tinker with Grandma's alarm clock after school, fixing the water main or just having a practice squawk at dinner, these flowers torture their teachers, fellow citizens and all adults in general. Moms and dads are going nuts and we're having a royal good time. Who do these saigas take after? Wouldn't crazy Uncle Chrobák know, who is driving around Smíchov in a hundred and twenty? Prague's answer to St. Nicholas' troubles in Paris has been entertaining Czech children for half a century. Bořík & spol. have been adapted for radio and television and, despite the pre-November realities, still belong to the golden fund of humorous stories for younger schoolchildren. First release of the complete recording! "The urchin holds up an uncompromising mirror to society. And what Twain and Poláček have done for the small town, Steklač does for the metropolis." - Golden May. "As a little boy I was very happy when I got the flu. I knew I could stay at home and read Bořík's stories in bed, because they are probably the most important books of my childhood..." - databazeknih.cz. "A wonderfully unfair reading of a bygone era. These lapses are an oasis of common sense - and paradoxically they were published during the normalisation period - in the desert of today's toothlessness, sexlessness and fear of one's own opinion not going in the right direction." - vaseliteratura.cz. "I found that there were unimaginable difficulties with my upbringing, as my parents always had to think of something new and effective to save me from the slippery slope, as my dad said. (...) And all this so that when I grow up I will not be a criminal." - excerpt from the text.