This paper consists of two parts: theoretical and practical. At the beginning, theres something said about children's literature and afterwords a fairy tale is presented through many of it's definitions. Its divided into classical and modern fairy tale and aspects and components of any types (motifs, composition, time and space, characters, violence, instructive...) are explained. The immense importance of fairy tales for children is also shown. After the general part of fairy tales, comes the part that is dedicated to Croatian fairy tales which Jozo Vrkić gathered in one place and under one name in his book Croatian fairy tales. In the practical part theres narrated fairy tale Hedgehog king's son in law to children in kindergarten with dramatizations of certain scenes and characters and then the transcript of the discussions and impressions of fairy tale is written and presented alongside the activities that have arisen on with the tale.