Jaroslav Foglar
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Jaroslav Foglar (6 July, 1907 - 23 January, 1999) was a famous Czech author who wrote many novels about young boy scouts and their stories in nature and dark city streets.
While they may be considered ideological, his stories are not mere fables, but are based upon his long-term work with children on summer camps and in club-rooms. He edited several journals for young people:
- Mladý hlasatel (1938-1941)
- Junák (1945-1949) /Scout/
- Vpřed (1946-1948) /Ahead/
and he wrote articles for even more journals including the Skaut, Junák, Sluníčko, ABC, and the Tramp.
Charles Sys wrote about him on the back-cover of his book Chata v jezerni kotline: "I think, that both meaning and effect of his work lies in moral purity based upon author's experience. Foglar raises reliance of children and young people. On pages of his novels there are happening miracles of friendship, nature is painted in its virgin purity, city streets are surrounded by secrets -- and it's possible to believe it all because it was imagined by a pure heart."
He wrote a long list of books:
- Hoši od Bobří řeky /Boys from the Beavers' river/
- Přístav volá /The port is calling/
- Když duben přichází /When april comes/
- Pod junáckou vlajkou /Under the scouts' flag/
- Devadesátka pokračuje /Number 90 goes on/
- Záhada hlavolamu /The mystery of the conundrum/
- Stínadla se bouří /The Stínadla are revolting/
- Tajemství velkého Vonta /The mystery of the big Vont/
- Strach nad Bobří řekou /Fear above the Beavers' river/
- Chata v jezerní kotline /The log-house in the lake basin/
- Tábor smůly /The camp of ill luck/
- Tajemná Řásnovka /Mysterious Řásnovka/
- Boj o první místo /A fight over the first place/
- Historie svorné sedmy /The history of the harmonious seven/
- Poklad černého delfína /The treasure of the black dolphin/
- Kronika ztracené stopy /The Chronicle of the Lost Trace/
- Náš oddíl /Our group/
- Dobrodružství v zemi nikoho /An adventure in the no-man's-land/
- Modrá rokle /The blue gorge/
- Jestřábe, vypravuj /Tell us the story,Goshawk/
- Život v poklusu /A life in a trot/
(this list is probably incomplete)
Foglar is also the author of a serial called Rychlé šípy, very successful among young readers.cs: Jaroslav Foglar