The appearance of animalistic motifs in children's literature is a rather often phenomenon due to generally close relationship between animals and children. Many children confide to their pets and reveal them their fears or secrets. An animal is both a company and a friend to a child in both - game, loneliness and happiness. An approach to animalistic prose can be anthropomorphic, but it can also belong to realistic opus, the one that Maja Gluščević, one of the most prominent authors of animalistic children’s novels, belongs to. In her prose, the author talks about the animals with kindness and love. In her works, she has affirmed closeness, friendship and togetherness between children and animals in both - good and bad times. The aim of this thesis is, taking into account the special characteristics of the analyzed opus, which can be divided into the collection of six short stories and ten novels, to recognize characteristics and special features of animalistic prose written by Maja Gluščević. Furthermore, the aim is to systematize the purpose and meaning of animals in the opus and offer a typology of relationships between people and animals relying on a few most common categories. Based on theory about children’s animalistic literature (Crnković, Batinić, Hranjec, Hameršak, Zima) the analyzed opus includes: Vuk samotnjak, Bundaš iz petog be, Bijeg u košari, Klopka za medvjedića, Ivin Vučko, Tko je oteo Dolores, Neman u gradskom parku, Priča o Jelenku, Džeki zvan Simpa, Tajna Tihe uvale i Piki i Argo.