Early Sorrows: For Children and Sensitive Readers (Serbo-Croatian: Rani jadi: Za decu i osetljive; Serbian Cyrillic: Рани јади: За децу и осетљиве) is a collection of nineteen short stories by Yugoslav author Danilo Kiš.

The book is part of what Kiš called his "family cycle" trilogy, consisting of the novels Garden, Ashes (1965), and Hourglass (1972).

[1] Though Early Sorrows was published after Garden, Ashes, it is effectively the first novel in the trilogy.

[2] Early Sorrows is composed of vignettes about Andy Sam, a young Serbian boy who works as a cowherd to bring in money for his family.

[3] Notably, it is the only work of Kiš's in which he depicts a scene inside a concentration camp (Andy hallucinates about his relatives who were taken away by Nazis).