Pesme za decu (Children's Poems)

Author: Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj
Original Title: Pesme za decu
Genre: Poetry, Children's book

Original publisher: unknown
Date first published: multiple
Date first read:  Around age 4 or 5

Main character(s): multiple
Favorite quote: N/A

Synopsis:
This is a collection of famous poems by children's author Jovan Jovanovic, called Zmaj (dragon in English). The poems vary in subject but are some of the widely known poems in the countries formerly composing Yugoslavia.

Review:
I cannot recall the details of these poems, but I know I have read them. The book is still in the family - it's a small, thin volume, obviously worn out by time, but still very legible. It's cover is green and has a little girl's face as well as some flowers on the cover.

When I recently visited my aunt (who has the book, probably without knowing), I found it in the storage room shelves and picked it up. I didn't get a chance to read the poems again, but when I looked at the book and flipped through the book, looking at some of them, I was struck by a memory of when I did first read it. I remember zipping through the poems, and being amazed that some of them were already known to me, my mom and grandma having recited and sung some of them to me (like Tasi, Tasi, Tanana). Others were new to me.

I'm pretty sure my aunt will be reading these to her granddaughter at some point, though I hope the book lasts long enough for me to read them to my kids.