Ove priče prikazuju probleme hrvatske svakodnevice u 19. veku - raspad tradicionalnog slavonskog seoskog života, nestanak seoskih zadruga, prodaju zemlje strancima, odlazak seljaka u grad.
In the story The Happy Cricket, a cheerful cricket lives carefree, happy in song and play, while hardworking ants remind him to work. The story teaches that true wealth lies in cheerfulness, joy, and an honest outlook on life.
The work brings together a gallery of colorful characters – family members, village neighbors, teachers, friends – who shape Ćopić's childish view of the world.
Danko Oblak brings us a panorama of pre-war and wartime events in Zagreb projected through the sensitive psyche of a six-year-old boy who experiences a childhood disrupted first by social misery and then by the dangers of war.