A car from the forest

In her short stories, Daisy Mrázková teaches children that the world can be understood from small, ordinary things that we can see in the forest, in the meadow or in the garden, we just have to look at them carefully. We have to observe, think, get to know up close... look under the bark of trees, learn to recognize, smell scents, watch how it gets dark, and experience great adventures, like a little stuffed animal that mommy let out for a walk for the first time. To be alone, to look around and feel the danger, to learn what it means to be afraid or, conversely, to understand what it is to love, to tremble before beauty, perfection, to ask yourself the first questions... Daisy Mrázková's books lead in a non-violent, fragile way to the most essential questions of human existence. In her short stories, Daisy Mrázková teaches children that the world can be understood from small, ordinary things that we can see in the forest, in the meadow or in the garden, we just have to look at them carefully. We have to observe, think, get to know up close... look under the bark of trees, learn to recognize, smell scents, watch how it gets dark, and experience great adventures, like a little stuffed animal that mommy let out for a walk for the first time. To be alone, to look around and feel the danger, to learn what it means to be afraid or, conversely, to understand what it is to love, to tremble before beauty, perfection, to ask yourself the first questions... Daisy Mrázková's books lead in a non-violent, fragile way to the most fundamental questions of human existence.