The main topic of this thesis is Pika Vončina's picture books. Picture books are first books which children hold in their hands. Pictures can help a child to learn how to connect pictures with words. Pika Vončina's picture books are hand painted and written picture books in which the main characters are anthropomorphised animals in everyday activities which children and adults can identify with. Some of the themes that picture books cover are: importance of the family, friendship, kindness and dreams. In the first part some general facts are listed about the author, while in the second part the picture books are analyzed. Analysis of every picture book was carried out following some criteria: text characteristics, illustration characteristics, correlation between the text and the picture, humor, topics that picture book covers, the author's writing and language style and methodical ideas about working with children with mentioned picture books. Methodical ideas about working with children with these picture books are separate chapters and they present ideas about possible work with children.