Little Mole

(Krtek or Krteček in Czech lanugage) is an animated character created for a series of cartoons 55 years ago.This fair, friendly, wise and helpful personage quickly won enormous popularity in many countries in central, eastern and northern Europe, Germany, France, Austria as well as in Russia, Japan and China.

NEW: Little Mole on board of space shuttle Endeavour!

We arrange for our foreign partners co-editions of various formats:

hard cover books: 195 x 255 mm, 36 – 104 pgs – 13 titles in the series, age 4+
board books: 150 x 150 mm, 12 pgs – 4 titles in the series, age 2+ 
activity books:  210 x 295 mm, 32 pgs – 5 titles in the series, age 3+
We still continue developping new products.

Over 5 millions copies were sold worldwide
Translated into 22 languages including German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese or Italian

History
• 1921 – was born Zdeněk Miler, the author of the character
• 1956 – first film with Little Mole – How Little Mole got his Trousers – won SILVER LION IN VENICE
• 1956 – 2002 – 50 film episodes with Little Mole
• 1961 – publication of first book - How Little Mole got his Trouser

Zdeněk Miler (1921 - 2011) was Czech animator and illustrator; he is best known for his Mole character and its adventures. Miler was born in Kladno (near Prague). He has been working in animated film for over 60 years and his films have won numerous awards at festivals around the world. The idea for Mole’s creation came when Miler was commissioned to make an educational film for children in 1956. He was not happy with the script he was given.  Strongly influenced as he was by the films of Walt Disney, he looked for an animal as the main character. Later, he said that the idea to use the mole as his main character came to him when he stumbled over a mole-hill whilst on a walk. The first film was titled “How the Mole got his Trousers”, which won a Silver Lion in Venice. In the beginning, the mole spoke. However, Miler wanted his mole to be understood everywhere in the world so he decided to use his daughters as voice actors, reducing the speech to short non-verbal exclamations in order to express the mole's feelings and world perception. His daughters were also his test audience, who got to see the films first. Thus Miler could see whether his message resonated with children. Little Mole was a huge success in Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe or Germany from the beginning and today the mole can be seen in over 80 countries.

Hana Doskočilová (1936) is author of dozens of books aimed at the youngest age group, and long-term editor with Albatros. She also works in radio, theatre and for children’s magazines.

Eduard Petiška (1924 – 1987) was writer of prose and poetry and author of books for adults and children, translator of classical poetry and fairy tales from German, he has worked in radio, television, film and theatre all his life. He has written some twenty successful books for children, which continue to appear in new reprints.