Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, is one of the most famous and highest quality writers for children in the Republic of Croatia and the world. Taking into account her literary work, the many works she has written, this paper presents the motives and themes with which the writer. Motives of patriotism, motherly love and desire for one's homeland are the characteristic motives of her writing. The assumption is that the characters in fables are often the bearers of motives, and in this paper the hypothesis will be confirmed by the method of analysis, interpretation and comparison. She wrote fables, whose messages are interesting not only to children but also to adult readers. Each of her fables carries a message at the very end of the work, which is of great importance for life and understanding of life. Messages of friendship, love, gullibility, quarrels and lying are messages to which she made it known that it does not matter how much we have but how many true and true values we worship. Given the quality messages in her fables, the way they are applied in early and preschool education is shown. With quality and stimulating preparation and interesting stimuli, reading and conducting fable reading in kindergarten, children are encouraged to develop competencies and understand the values of living