Diplomsko delo Mladinska dela Dušana Čatra je pregled in predstavitev vseh mladinskih del obravnavanega avtorja. Naš namen je bil, da z literarnoteoretičnega stališča predstavimo njegova dela, ki smo jih najprej zvrstno opredelili in tako ugotovili, da se bomo ukvarjali z realno in s fantastično prozo. Ker gre za teoretično diplomsko delo, so temu primerne izbrane raziskovalne metode. V teoretičnem delu smo najprej razložili teorijo in značilnosti povedke, fantastične pripovedi in avanturistično realističnega mladinskega romana. Glede na to, da vse obravnavane povedke primarno sodijo v folklorno prozo, smo se dotaknili tudi te teme in razložili pojem ljudsko slovstvo. V teoretičnem delu smo še obrazložili in dodali značilnosti literarnega junaka. V jedru, kjer je osrednja tema, je najprej predstavljen avtor, nato pa so predstavljena vsa mladinska avtorjeva dela, in sicer: Peter Klepec (1995), Veronika Deseniška (1996), Kralj Matjaž (1996), Ribamož (2008) in Pojdi z mano (2013). Pri povedkah smo ugotovili povezave s tradicijo, tako da je v sklepu uporabljena komparativna metoda, s katero smo obravnavane povedke primerjali s folklornimi. V sklepu je ugotovljena tudi skupna značilnost glavnih oseb v vseh analiziranih delih. Thesis Juvenile Works of Dušan Čater is an overview and presentation of all juvenile works of the author discussed. Our intention was to present his works, which we initially determined by genre, from literary theoretical point of view. That way we found out we will engage in realistic and fantastic prose. Since the thesis is theoretical, the selected research methods are corresponding. Within theoretical part we first explained theory and features of tale, fantastic narrative and adventurously realistic youth novel. Considering all our discussed tales belong to folk prose, we touched also this theme and explained the concept of folk literature. Within theoretical part we also explained and added features of a literary character. In the main part of the thesis, where the crucial theme is, the author is being introduced ahead and further on follows the presentation of all his juvenile works, namely these are Peter Klepec (1995), Veronica of Desenic (1996), King Matthew (1996), Ribamož (2008) and Go with Me (2013). Each work has a summary presented, literary time and place, motives, themes and analysis, considering genre we found out. We found connection with tradition in tales, therefore we used comparative method in the conclusion, where we compared our discussed tales with folkloristic. The common feature of main characters in all analysed works is being found out in the conclusion.