This work is focused on speech as a basic means of communication and the importance of speech development from a child's earliest age, as well as the development of literary communication. A child's language development can be encouraged in different ways and with different means. One of them is reading and telling a story with the help of a kamishibai picture book. In addition to speech, by telling and reading stories we influence all areas of the child's development, such as socio-emotional, motor and cognitive development. In order for the child to be able to develop in all areas of development, it is important to cooperate with educators and parents, who will together enrich the child's speech with daily storytelling and other literary texts that are appropriate for the child's age and interests. In these and many other ways, the development of literary communication is encouraged. In working with children of early and preschool age, it results from the direct interaction between the educator and the child, by which the children are actively involved in joint communication with the literary text. Among the many types of literature with which it is possible to establish literary communication, the paper talks about reading a kamishibai picture book. Working with this type of picture book is interesting because of the dynamics of alternating pictures, which encourages and maintains the child's attention to the content and way of telling the story, and multidirectional interactivity is realized: child- literary content-educator.