Vladana Likar-Smiljanić
Vladana Likar-Smiljanić (; born 18 July 1943, Belgrade) is a Serbian engineer, educator and book illustrator and writer. In the former Yugoslavia, Likar-Smiljanić illustrated children's books, of which hundreds of thousands of copies were sold. Her books were sold also in Spain, Italy, the United States, Germany, the Soviet Union. She initially became well-known for her page "Cica's Corner" in popular Yugoslav magazine for entertainment, Politikin Zabavnik. Her first illustrations appeared in The Treasury of Children's Poems by Jova Jovanović Zmaj. After her successful debut, Likar-Smiljanić illustrated more than twenty books, that were almost as popular as her first book. She was collecting counting songs for the hide and seek game of many nations, and illustrated those in one of her favorites "Counting Songs". Vladana both wrote and illustrated her last book "Princess Milly" that was devoted to her younger daughter Milče. Milče was a frightened little girl, and the stories of this book were weaved to encourage her to handle whatever situations she would encounter. Likar-Smiljanić's main profession was teaching and researching at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering. For her research, she examined the properties of various materials, in particular their complex permeability and permittivity at