For Children

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

For a hundred years, a monster slept in a small cave under the house: his head was under the kitchen cupboard and his tail was under the doorstep. It was a rather grumpy monster, but while it slept, it brought the home happiness: nowhere were there such red roses or such happy children. But one day the monster started waking up … (The House Above a Monster)

PICTURE BOOKS

It was a crazy little fly, flying and flying, around the buildings, above the streets, through the park, it had already forgotten where it had come from, and it had never even known where it was going. Where the window was open, it entered; where it was closed – it did not enter. Simple. But how did it suddenly find itself in that strange, quiet room? (A Fly in Ivan Kožarić’s Studio)

FOLK TALES RETOLD

After the cursed soul had carried him across the sea, he travelled for another whole day, and in the evening he reached hell. But there was no one at home in hell— except one old woman. And she was the mother of the devil himself. – What’s the matter with you, son, why did you come here? – the old woman asked the boy. The young man told her that he needed three handfuls of devil’s feathers, and that he would like to know what is the matter with the royal garden where nothing grows, and how long the cursed soul will have to suffer by carrying people across the sea. (Croatian Fairy Tales)