Five-Year Plan as a Science-Fiction Picturebook from 1948 Cover Image

Five-Year Plan as a Science-Fiction Picturebook from 1948
Five-Year Plan as a Science-Fiction Picturebook from 1948

Author(s): Berislav Majhut
Contributor(s): Željka Flegar (Translator)
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Fiction, Croatian Literature, Serbian Literature, State/Government and Education, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Source Material, Sociology of Education
Published by: Hrvatska udruga istraživača dječje književnosti
Keywords: Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia; science-fiction picturebook; 1948; Ministry of Education; publishing industry; children’s literature;

Summary/Abstract: After World War II Croatia was one of the six constituents of the newly founded Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia – FPRY (1945–1963). It was in this period that a very unusual picturebook appeared, aimed at young readers. In 1949 the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of Serbia published the booklet A Selection of Books for Children from 3 to 14 Years of Age. The selection drew on the publishing industry of the entire Yugoslavia, i.e. including books published in Zagreb, Sarajevo and other parts of “our country”... [...]

  • Issue Year: 9/2020
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 363-422
  • Page Count: 60
  • Language: English, Croatian
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