Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić's second book, School and Holidays (Škola i praznici) is a collection of stories and poems similar in structure to her previous work (The Good and the Naughty, 1902), but different in content. The book was published in 1905 by the Croatian Teaching and Literary Union, in the Youth Booklet series. Having her work published in a distinguished book series meant 'official' recognition for Ivana, but it also indicated that the tales and poems published in this collection were more interesting and appealing than those included in The Good and the Naughty. Rudolfo Franjin Magjer included several texts from School and Holidays in the 1906 anthology of youth literature In Verse and Prose.

The collection School and Holidays includes sixteen short stories and thirty poems, which all describe children's mischief in a humorous, at times even ironic way. The primary focus is on the everyday life of children who can be messy and spoiled, at times lazy, prone to harmless pranks, carefree and playful, children who sometimes fight and make each other angry – namely, children who are not expected to only be good. What is more, children who are not always good are not punished, as was the case in The Good and the Naughty (Ivana's previous book).

Dubravka Zima, 2013