The work observes animals as characters in a children's story. The work is divided into 9 chapters. In the introduction, the topic of the work is stated and the observed contents are presented. The first and the second chapter lists the features of children’s literature. The definition of children's literature is given and the main types of children's literature are listed. In the third chapter the features of the children 's story are listed, and are divided according to their difference and its importance in child development is stated. In fourth chapter features of children's stories are presented in correlation with characters as animals. In the second part of the work selected children’s stories are shown, in which the characters are animals. The stories are divided according to whether the characters are wild or domestic animals. In the fifth chapter, the features of selected stories are highlighted. The conclusion states that the characters are anthropomorphized and that stories mainly deal with topics that are in the interest to preschool children.