HOW CHILDREN GROW

About the Book

Đuro Maričić, for more than seventy years, is friends of children, nature, and animals. He loves and adores them. He’s a great friend. He writes poems and stories for children. He knows very well the lives of children, their games and pranks in the family, school, and on the street. He observes first children’s charity. When he is with them, the child becomes a poet. Humor is present in many Chuck songs. He feels that laughter is a cure! Đuro has written more than seven hundred songs for kids. Renowned Croatian writer, Tito Bilopavlović, edited the journal for kids, SMIB, which is intended for children of lower ages, for fifteen years. In the book How Grow Children, Tito chose twenty-eight of Đuro’s anthology poems. The famous poet Luko Paljetak of Croatian Academy wrote a review, a recommendation for the publication of this beautiful collection of songs. The song “The First-Grade Duckling” entered the readers in the first grade, in Croatia, secret letters, whose authors are Jadranka Zlokić and Terezija Bralić. It is on the first page. Some of these songs are also readers in the lower grades of primary school in Serbia. These poems have been published in magazines for children in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina. Interestingly enough, the only one of the songs, “Menagerie,” did Đuro install as thirteen animals. In other songs, besides the children and their mischief, are dogs, cats, chicken, butterfly, small kangaroo, sparrow, centipede, giraffe, rabbit, rooster, fox, and bear. There are also doll, dad, mom, and captain of the ship. Nature is present in many poems of this book. There are seasons: spring, summer and harvest, sunflowers, autumn and quince, winter and frost. Reading these poems is the ultimate pleasure for children, but adults also like to read them and remember. Do not forget them; they often come back and read it again.

About the Author

Đuro Maričić was born on November 13, 1934, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1950, he moved to Croatia in Zagreb. He finished high school and, in 1962, graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, a small electric current. He graduated from the School of Foreign Languages, Germany. He speaks English and Russian. He studied at the Faculty of Economic Sciences. Writing and painting started as a boy in the lower grades of the school. Literary work deals of 1955, he writes poetry and fiction for children and adults, criticism, literature for children and adults, aphorisms, travelogues, and novels. He has published twenty-four books. Newspapers waiting ten books: monographs, anthologies, scholarly works, fiction, and poetry. This is the most unique book in the world, short stories about animals, which was translated to the English language and published in New York in 2011 by Xlibris. He is the first writer in the world who writes about animals as the personalities who have a soul. He has worked in more than fifty newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV cells in the former Yugoslavia. Magazines for children of his published over 250 songs. Four songs for children prevdene him and entered the anthology of Serbian poetry for children, Book of Joy, in a parallel translation of the Russian language, which was published in 2012. Maričić is an international arbiter; despite numerous chess tournaments, he judged in five chess Olympiads. He is the founder of the chess clubs and initiator and editor of Chess Bulletin. He was president of Croatian Chess Federation. For many years, he dealt in amateur photography. He founded the Photo Club Refinery. Camera recorded the first amateur film in the town of Sisak. The profession engineers were just as successful as in the literature. Humanism is a commitment for Đuro Maričić. As a volunteer blood donor, he has given blood fifty times.