Interview with an author

On Monday 19/6/2017 Mgr. Jan Šula, the author of seven books and at the same time a teacher at the basic school in Vysoké Mýto, came to our school and spent a fruitful hour together with our students of SEKUNDA class discussing the books he has written. He is a very modest man and doesn´t consider himself a writer - he calls himself an author of non-fiction books. The books he has written are about the Czech history, the Czech painters and about the Czech and European musicians. His talk was very interesting and we have learnt why he started writing books, what is the aim of his books (he wants to encourage both the teens and adults to be interested in history, fine arts and music), about his books illustrator and about what you have to do if you want your book to be published. The students, who took part in the discussion, listened to him with real curiosity and interest. It was a pleasant meeting and we are would like to thank Mr. Jan Šula for the wonderful discussion.

Illustrations and cartoons

Rumcajs is a fictional character of a series of bed-time stories that are very popular with the children in the Czech Republic (the Polish children may know them too). He is a robber but a good-natured robber who used to be a shoemaker and started living in a cave in the middle of the forest Řáholec and robbing rich people because he was withdrawn from his workshop. He has a wife Manka and a small son Cipísek who live with him in the cave.

The cartoons that made the modern fairy tale that popular were made by the Czech artist Radek Pilař (1931 - 1993). On 19/5/2017 there a new exhibition was opened in the Town Gallery in the Municipal Museum in Vysoké Mýto - it showed some of the drawings of Radek Pilař (not in the photo show because of the copyright) and also pictures created by the children from Vysoké Mýto schools. At 7 p. m. there was a discussion with Radek Pilař´s daughter and a few of our students took part in it. She spoke about her father, about Rumcajs and how the cartoons were created - it was very interesting. In the end the children asked her a few questions such as if her small children like the stories about Rumcajs as well and what other stories they like reading. You can see some photos from the exhibition and from the discussion in the photo show below.