The strange adventures of the apprentice Hlapić is the first novel by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić and the first Croatian novel for children. Published in 1913, it became the prototype of a children's novel in Croatian literature. It has a realistic origin, but
Childhood (1852) is the first book of an autobiographical trilogy (with Adolescence and Youth), where Tolstoy explores the world of childhood through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Nikolinka Irtenjev – innocence, joys, sorrows and first traumas.
Gustav Krklec was a versatile children's writer. The book you are currently looking at contains a large oeuvre of his works. In it you can find his short stories, conversations, fables, ballads and many more different poems.