Objavljena 1971. godine, „Glava u klancu, noge na vrancu“ je knjiga koja je obeležila mnoga detinjstva. Kao i „Orlovi rano lete“ i „Magareće godine“ govori o dečaštvu koje kroz borbu protiv nepravde stasava u čoveštvo. Ćopić ne samo da je pesnik koji je umeo da opiše detinjstvo, smestivši ličnu priču u školsku klupu, već je osećanja mladalački bunt umeo da osenči borbom za pravdu, dajući im dubinu i ozbiljnost.
„Glava u klancu noge na vrancu“ je knjiga za mlade, ali i mladalačka knjiga koja uči pobuni, humoru, neposrednosti, ljubavi prema vranama i ovčarskim psima, vodenicama i prirodi.
Branko Ćopić (Cyrillic: Бранко Ћопић; January 1, 1915 – March 26, 1984) was a Yugoslav writer. He was born in the village of Hašani near Bosanska Krupa. He attended schools in Bihać, Banja Luka, Sarajevo and Karlovac before moving to Belgrade to study philosophy at the University of Belgrade until his graduation in 1940.
Upon the uprising in the Bosanska Krajina in 1941, he joined the Partizans and remained in their ranks until the end of World War II. That period of his life influenced much of his literary work as can be seen by the themes he later writes about. Athe the end of the war he returned to Belgrade where he was, until 1949, the director of a children's magazine called "Pioniri". From 1951 until his death he was a professional writer.
His books have been translated into Albanian, Czech, English, Dutch, Italian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, Slovak, German, French, and Russian, and some of them have been turned into TV series and feature-films.
Jednostvno moram da dam 5 zvezdica ovoj knjizi zato sto me je na mnogo mesta podsetila na moje detinstvo. Dok sam citao ovu knigu shvatio sam koliko je drasticno velika razlika izmedju odrastanja i skole tad i sad. Mislim da bi svim likovima iz ove knjige u ovo vreme bila oduzeta deca a uciteljica bi dobila otkaz ali se onda na zivot drugacije gledalo. Jako puno smesnih dijaloga i scena bas sam uzivao citajuci ovu knjigu.