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The Big Book of the Dark - Helena Hara?tová Do you think that the streets of your town and the countryside around it are completely silent and deserted at night? This book will open your eyes! You will find out that there are nocturnal animals that are active while you sleep, plants that glow in the dark, and even people who work at night and go to sleep when you get up! The highly-detailed gatefold illustrations and informative descriptions on the pull-out flaps will give readers the opportunity to see what happens at nighttime in a forest, in a town, in a village, at an airport, and also deep in the oceans and underground where some creatures live in permanent darkness. In printed laminated case format. About the Author Helena Hara tova graduated with a degree in Dramaturgy from the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts, and is a part-time student of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, Brno. She works mainly as a writer and a translator from English and Russian, and her work includes little books in the Bizbooks imprint and a Czech translation of a musical, Bernarda Alba. After two years working for the company of the National Theatre in Brno, she became a literary editor at B4U Publishing. Her first writing for children was a dramatization of The Life Story of a Baby with a Big Head for the National Theatre in Brno. Jiri Franta is a visual artist and illustrator and a member of the artists group Rafani. He is part of the duo Franta-Bohm and cofounder of the magazine Kix. He was shortlisted several times for the Jindrich Chalupecky Award. His work is exhibited in Czechia and abroad. From 2004 to 2009 he and Jiri Skala ran the gallery ETC, which they founded in 2004."