Ivana Brlić Mažuranić (Ogulin, April 18, 1874. - Zagreb, 21 September 1938.) Is a Croatian writer who is recognized in Croatia and abroad as one of the most important writer for children. He comes from a renowned intellectual bourgeois family Mažuranić. When she 1892. married to a lawyer and politician Vatroslav Brlić, Ivana moved to Brod na Savi (today Slavonski Brod), where she lived most of her life he devoted to his family, educational and literary work. As a mother of seven children, had a chance to get acquainted with the child's psyche, and so understand the purity and innocence of their world. Raised in the folk spirit, with her husband Vatroslav included in public life in circles, head of the National Movement. Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer awarded her a gold medal for the efforts of anti-Hungarian.