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Slavic folklore contains a variety of beliefs concerning magical animals and other imaginary liminal beings, their characteristics properties. This heritage was adopted used in the past by various children’s authors who integrated these motifs into own work. Some recent authors, on hand, show marked tendency to implement invention order convey an ecological message, often employing quasi-encyclopaedic approach (e. g. Uroš Petrović Zoran Penevski). Others create explore moral dilemmas psychological depths form appropriate for children Mina Todorović). When makes reappearance, it sometimes takes comical function contemporary urban context Ivana Nešić). In this paper we provide overview analysis fantastic heterogeneous origins functions Serbian fantasy written children, presenting condensed outline most developments. Our aim is combine traditional literary elements with ecocriticism.