Iz moga dvorišta i druge priče

From My Yard and Other Stories was published by Croatian educator and writer Ljudevit Krajacic. The book is illustrated with black-and-white drawings, and is part of a series of works intended for children and young people, which earned Krajacic an important place in Croatian children's literature of the interwar period.

The collection brings together short stories that start from everyday scenes from children's lives. The author observes the world from a child's perspective and, through simple events, reveals feelings of joy, fear, curiosity, loneliness and friendship. The titular yard symbolically represents the space of children's experience, play and first life experiences, but also a place of encounter with social and family realities.

Krajacic's storytelling is characterized by an accessible style, pronounced sensitivity and interest in the psychology of children's characters. Unlike the moralizing texts common at the time, his stories often depict the more difficult aspects of growing up: poverty, insecurity, conflicts between children and a feeling of rejection. It is precisely because of such social motives that literary criticism ranks him among the pioneers of the social story in Croatian literature for young people.

The work builds on the author's earlier collections such as Bakičina tuga, Iz zebnice Ivica Rakića, Sanje djetinjstva and Višnjica, in which he also explores the world of children and the relationship between imagination and reality. Krajačić believed that literature for children must have the same artistic value as literature for adults, so in his works he tried to combine an educational function with literary quality.

Today, Iz moga dvoća is considered a valuable example of Croatian children's prose between the two world wars and an important testimony to the development of modern literature for young readers.