
Tota Lítá
A girl named Tota loves to wander everywhere. In her dreams, she discovers
distant realms and longs to see the whole world. But one day, her carefree
roaming is interrupted by her grandfather’s memories of the totalitarian regime in
which he grew up. Tota wants to learn about her grandfather’s past, so she sets
out for a distant totality. When she sees with her own eyes what is happening
there, she decides to help the people living under it. She meets dissidents,
encounters the prohibitions and commands of the regime, and also the powerful
and terrifying King Totáč.
Will Tota succeed in overthrowing him?
The first children’s book by Magnesia Litera award-winning author Nina
Špitálníková introduces young readers to the mechanisms of totalitarianism
through Tota’s thrilling story as well as worksheets that can be freely downloaded.
You can fill them out at home or at school and reflect on how totalitarianism
works and how you yourself would act if you lived under it.
