Vladana Likar-Smiljani

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vladana is among the best-known illustrators in the former Yugoslavia, where she illustrated children's books that were sold in hundreds thousands of copies. Exact numbers of sold copies are hard to know due to the unruly nature of the Balkans especially in uncertain political times. Vladana's books were sold also in Spain, Italy, the United States, Germany, Soviet Union. Initially, she became well known for her page "Cica's Corner" in a popular Yugoslav magazine for entertainment Politikin Zabavnik. Vladana's first and most famous book is "The Treasury of Children's Poems by Jova Jovanović Zmaj".