Smiljana Narančić Kovač is an associate professor at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She established several courses on children’s literature within the study programme for teachers of English to primary learners and she has been teaching children’s literature in English at the university level since 1995. Her research interests include comparative children’s literature, the narrative, picturebook theory, and literature in teaching English (to young learners). She has published papers concerning literature in EFLT in various publications. She was the Principal Investigator for a national project about translations of children’s literature (2015–2018). She is the editor-in-chief of Libri & Liberi.