Picture Books and Fairy Tales • Literature for children
Čoban nadmudrio carevu kćer: Hrvatska narodna pripovijetka
The story was originally published in the collection of Croatian folk stories from Vojvodina "To the sky", which was collected and edited by Balint Vujkov, under the title Wise Shepherd, and narrated by Miško Zelić Kaćmar.
The novel represents Tolstoy's adaptation of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi; he got the idea for the novel as a child, when he was read only the first part of the book, so he invented the rest himself.
About the origin of the short story The girl outsmarted the emperor by Vuk St. Karadžić says that it was sent to him by pop Vuk Popović from Risno in Boka Kotorska. About the short story Two Money, he says: "I heard it from a beggar in Novi Sad, but I wro