This book - "Fairy Tales and Funny Stories" - will introduce you to another side of the work of the wonderful Czech writer Karel apek - with fairy tales. True, these fairy tales are very special, rather than fairy tales, but funny, entertaining stories: along with fabulous creatures - mermaids, housemates, gnomes - they have the most ordinary postmen, firefighters, chauffeurs . The inexhaustible fantasy, fiction, brilliant humor of Karel apek made these tales a classic reading. The book is illustrated by the writer himself and his brother Joseph apek. Drawings by Josef apek and Karel apek. Translated by Boris Zakhoder .