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Družba Pere Kvržice
''Družba Pere Kvržice'' ("Pero the Lump's gang") is a 1933 children's novel written by Croatian children's novelist Mato Lovrak. The plot concerns a group of children headed by Pero "Kvržica", who secretly decide to restore a disused village mill. It remains Lovrak's second best known work, after his first novel, '' Vlak u snijegu''. In 1970 the novel was made into a theatrical film of the same title, directed by Vladimir Tadej Vladimir Tadej (9 May 1925 – 1 March 2017) was a Croatian production designer, screenwriter and film director. He contributed to more than forty films from 1949 to 1998. Selected filmography References External links * 1925 births .... In 2011, it was adapted for theatre. It is required reading in the 4th grade in all Croatian primary schools. References Further reading * Croatian novels Children's novels 1933 novels Novels set in Croatia 1933 children's books {{1930s-child-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Novel
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, that have only been identified as children's literature in the eighteenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, that adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience. Since the fifteenth century much literature has been aimed specifically at children, often with a moral or religious message. Children's literature has been shaped by religious sources, like Puritan traditions, or by more philosophical and scientifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia
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Mato Lovrak
Mato Lovrak (8 March 1899 - 14 March 1974) was a Croatian children's literature writer. Biography Mato Lovrak was born on 8 March 1899 in Veliki Grđevac. Lovrak finished teacher training college in Zagreb and served as teacher in Kutina, Veliki Grđevac, Veliki Zdenci and Zagreb. Lovrak wrote realistic short stories and novels for children. His most famous works are "'' Vlak u snijegu''" ("A Train in the Snow"), "'' Družba Pere Kvržice''" ("Pero Kvržica's Gang"). Those novels were the basis for two children's movies with the same names. "''Vlak u snijegu''" has been translated into German, Hungarian, Polish, Czech and Slovene language. "''Družba Pere Kvržice''" has been translated into Esperanto. His works emphasized love for children, the beauty of nature and the pursuit of social justice Social justice is justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watermill
A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in the production of many material goods, including flour, lumber, paper, textiles, and many metal products. These watermills may comprise gristmills, sawmills, paper mills, textile mills, hammermills, trip hammering mills, rolling mills, wire drawing mills. One major way to classify watermills is by wheel orientation (vertical or horizontal), one powered by a vertical waterwheel through a gear mechanism, and the other equipped with a horizontal waterwheel without such a mechanism. The former type can be further divided, depending on where the water hits the wheel paddles, into undershot, overshot, breastshot and pitchback (backshot or reverse shot) waterwheel mills. Another way to classify water mills is by an essential trait about their location: tide mills ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlak U Snijegu
''Vlak u snijegu'' ( en, A Train in the Snow), first called ''Djeca Velikog Sela'' --"The children of Veliko Selo") is a children's novel written by Croatian novelist Mato Lovrak (1899–1974), then a young schoolteacher inspired by actual events, in 1931. ''Vlak u snijegu'' has been translated into German, Hungarian, Polish, Macedonian, Czech and Slovenian. Plot At the suggestion of their teacher, fourth grade schoolchildren in imaginary "Jabukovac, near Veliko Selo", create an association and organize a field trip to the nearby town. There, they eat chocolate in a chocolate factory and spend the evening at a movie theater. As they are supposed to return to their village, their teacher gets ill and must stay in a hospital. The children travel back alone, and the train gets blocked by a snowdrift. With the help of the children, the railroad workers manage to clear the way. Film In 1976 the novel was made into a children's film of the same name by director M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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