The first part of the thesis gives definitions, as well as setting out guidelines and tasks of the international organisations UNESCO and IFLA, relating to the work of public libraries, emphasising those that support encouraging and nourishing “the pleasure of reading” at children’s departments. Upon setting out a framework that can be used to create and independently perform programmes targeting the children, the thesis further discusses Bowlby’s Attachment Theory. John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory builds and expands on the need of a child to develop connections that stem from its own innate instinct vital for its own survival. A child’s actual experience of being read to by an adult can have a highly beneficial effect on their sense of security, well-being and development, and so it is necessary to show and explain how this positive effect is caused,aside from the existence of so many outstanding high quality children’s picture books. This process largely rests on and is explained by Attachment Theory. The responsibility to provide that experience is in the hands of the adult that reads to the child. This is explained in detail through prepositions set out in work “Hold On To Your Kids” by Gabor Maté and Gordon Neufeld. The authors of this work emphasise the importance of the adult being the “reference point of the child” in the latter’s growth, development and maturing. The thesis discusses and demonstrates picture books as an “experience of a child”, according to Barbara Bader’s definition. According to this definition a picture book is an object in which the author has stored his/her creative ideas, and the reader is expected to perceive, decode, download and then place that idea into his/her inner world, thereby to intellectually enrich himself/herself, to further develop himself/herself and to share new ideas with other people. The thesis provides thoughts on arts, through the relationship between fiction and reality by Mac Barnett and Milan Crnković. 68 Mac Barnett attributes these qualities to an emotional state to which the art of fiction (ie a picture book) may take us, while Milan Crnković suggests they are a product of the story itself. The thesis also provides a short insight into the progression from non-reader to reader and presents for discussion the regular activity of reading for pleasure at Jelkovec Library, Department for Children and Youths.