Non-Human Animal in Josip Pavi？i？’s Children’s Prose

Sa？etak The world of nature, and especially the relationship between man and animals, constitutes a basic component of Pavi？i？’s short and long narrative prose for children, published in children’s magazines and printed in his many story collections. In that sense, the mentioned short prose is encouraging for the analysis from the viewpoint of literary animal studies as a relatively new post-humanistic discipline, which has only in the recent decades achieved affirmation. The objective of the paper is to study the way of representation of non-human animals and their role in the selected narratives. The analysis will also include moral and ethical issues, such as speciesism and empathy, having in mind a wider context of Croatian children’s literature and interdisciplinary animalistic insights