The African imagination unmercifully breaks down European preconceptions of what a folktale is supposed to look like. Poetic, somewhat absurd, and in some places dark - such are the short folktales in this book. Most of them come out of traditional African folklore, as reimagined by child storytellers, with a rather distinctive flavor.These stories came into the hands of the Czech artist David Böhm in the suitcase of his sister Terezie as a stack of student essays from a small Central African school. Retelling these kids' stories in comic format, Böhm creates a singularly refreshing graphic adaptation for adults.About the Author: Together with his colleague and long-time friend Jiří Franta, David Böhm organizes performances, shoots videos, builds spatial installations, and interferes with public space. Terezie Böhm applies her techniques to children's books, where she develops kids' creativity in a fun way. Author of book and magazine illustrations. The output of his work may resemble a drawing diary, graffiti, cartoons, comics, conceptual art, slapstick, sports performances, art of collaboration, physical experiments, improvised choreography or theater performances. Important for him are processiveness, time-lapse principle, overcoming the pitfalls, intertwining the media, experimenting, adhering to and exceeding the rules, creative dialogue, irony, seriousness, playfulness, eternal incompleteness. In other words, he does not create drawings