Starting from the fact of inscribing regional literary poetics in the national one in the context of literary-theoretical reflections on the existence of regional poetics (Ivon, Vrcić-Mataija 2019) that contribute to differences within the canon of Croatian children's literature, the paper interprets through the prism of literary regionalism part of the literary work of Mirko Ćurić, Croatian writer, from Đakovo. The analysis included twenty picture books of a wide range of local themes with a characteristic typology (fairy tales about the groom-animal, versions of world-famous fairy tales dressed in native literary and artistic attire and fairy tales with fantastic characters of opponents and helpers), some of which were created by interpolating the Croatian folk tale (Zalar 2014), with smaller or larger literary interventions. Using Đakovo's oral heritage, collected in 1936 (Dr. Milena Papratović), as the original literary text, Ćurić's picture books are in fact artistic illustrated books in a narrower sense, created as a combination of fairy-tale-folk narrative and artistic expression (illustrators: Siniša Simon, Ivan Antolčić, Vjekoslav Vojo Radoičić, Andrea Bassi, Monika Vladisavljević, Manuela Vladić-Maštruko, Katarina Kuric, Patricija Drenjančević, Veronika Sinko, Petra Balekić, Gualtiero Mocenni i Simone Mocenni Beck). One part of the picture books are literary adaptations of world-famous fairy tales, natively contextualized, while some of them are based on the literary template of folk tales, which were written down by Slavonian writer Nikola Tordinac. He wrote them down in Pecs while collecting the heritage treasures of Pécs Croats. This led to a shift in the presentation of the literary space that is not the reference region of Đakovo. As a contribution to regional themes, Ćurić's picture books, touching directly or marginally on the Đakovo area, in the historical, ethnological, literary, linguistic, artistic and cultural context, represent a significant contribution to the poetics of native picture books within the Slavonian literary model.