Sunčana Škrinjarić is one of the most prominent authors od croatian children's literature, whose work has been awarded many times. The main aim of this paper was to analyze her work, based on the elements of the new type of fairy tale, that Hranjec presentes in his „Views on children's literature”. The analysis includes three books „Two laughs”, „Cactus fairy tale”, „Summer in a blue coat” and a novel „Wonderful forest”. Her stories have significantly enriched our contemporary children's creativity and left a significant mark in the forest of distinctive children's literature. Her work consists of fairy-tale and fantastic determinants, based on them Škrinjarić created her wonderful and magical world. The results of the analysis showed that Sunčana Škrinjarić, through all her works, draws nature and unusual characters that are repeated from story to story. In addition, each of her stories cointains a hidden lesson that the reader discovers on his own. Using elements from different literary genres, Sunčana Škrinjarić breathes life into her stories that merge the real and unreal world.