KEKEC

• He lives with his father, mother and his two sisters Tinkara and Jerica. • During the summer he

works for the family where Rozle and Mojca live. Mojca is blind and he wants to help her somehow.

•Kekec is a boy with a hat, a feather on the hat and a whistle.

•He is a herdsman and lives in the Slovenian mountains.

•He is very nice and happy, brave and clever, nosy, teasing and energetic.

CHARACTERISTICS OF KEKEC:

• He likes singing and playing his whistle and zither.

• He’s good-hearted.• He helps people.• He does good deeds.• He is curious and adventurous.

THE MAIN CHARACTERS

• Kekec, very brave herdsman• Rozle, a herdsman, a coward • Mojca, Rozle’s blind sister• Bedanec, a wild hunter• Pehta, she collects herbs and kidnaps

children • Kosobrin, he collects herbs, he is

very wise• Brincelj, a forest fool• Vitranc, a mountain wise man

BEDANEC

PEHTA

Kekec is a literary hero and there are three books about his life, written by Josip Vandot:

• Kekec na hudi poti (Kekec on the Hard Path - 1918)

• Kekec na volcji sledi (Kekec on the Wolf Trail - 1922)

• Kekec nad samotnim breznom (Kekec Above the Lonely Abyss - 1968)

Josip Vandot

There were three film adaptations for all stories:

• Kekec (1951) – first Slovene youth full-length movie, black and white

• Srecno, Kekec (Good luck, Kekec - 1963) – first Slovene colour film

• Kekceve ukane (Kekec's Wiles - 1968) – colour film

KEKEC’S LAND

• Kranjska Gora: in the Slovenian mountains

• You can meet all the characters there.

• The characters tell the stories about Kekec.

• You can eat some typical Slovenian food there that herdsmen used to eat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XViah7DJrM

•Kekec’s song: “the good mood is the best”