In the 1950s, Zdenek Miler stumbled over a molehill in woods west of Prague, giving him the idea for an animated cartoon character that has enchanted millions of children around the world and even ...

In this latest installment of the Little Mole series, the title character—a gray, dot-eyed critter in a striped hat, green sweater, charcoal pants, and galoshes—discovers “the biggest, the best, the ...