In this paper the children's characters are interpreted in the Croatian children's prose about the Homeland War. It analyzes the position of children's characters in war circumstances, their thinking and attitude to war, to adults, and the presentation of violently broken childhood. The subject of the research are the novels of fantastic opus: Ivan Kušan, Koko u Kninu, Nada Iveljić, Čuvarice novih krovova, Hrvoje Hitrec, Smogovci u ratu, Predrag Raos, Od rata do zvijezda, Zlatko Krilić, Krik); and the novels of realistic opus: Nikola Pulić, Strah me mama, Stjepan Tomas, Mali ratni dnevnik, Maja Gluščević, Bijeg u košari i Ivin Vučko, Nada Iveljić, Marijina tajna, Hrvoje Hitrec - Vladimir Tadej, Kanjon opasnih igara. Motivated often by the desire to help children - war victims, writers talked about the Homeland War, dealing with various segments of suffering and war circumstances (refugees, sufferings of loved ones, fear for their own lives, war adventures), ending the works mostly optimistic. Children's characters are brought into unusual circumstances, thus changing and accelerating the process of maturing and relationship to life and their fellows. Happy childhood gets another form and exceeds to the struggle for survival, children's characters are caught up with internal turmoil, their confessions are brought, suffering, sorrow and fears. On the other hand, some of the novels discuss children's war adventure in which children's characters prove their bravery. However, no matter what the case was, the everyday life of the children in the war prose changes and their childhood passes to the fast growing age where the war left indelible traces.