A picture book is the first book a child encounters in his life, and it plays a major role in his development from an early age. Through a picture book, a child encounters literature for the first time, develops imagination, learns, learns to understand, gets answers to questions, creates stories and learns about a world he does not yet know. That is why it is extremely important to choose a high-quality picture book that will help the child in this, but also interest him with a high-quality story and illustrations. Parents and educators plays a big role in this, as they are the child's first "teachers", helpers in getting to know and understand the world and things that the child is just getting to know, and the people who spend the most time with the child during that period and take care of him. The paper presents a transition through children's literature where its beginnings and its functions and types are described, through the section "Homeland" where details related to that part are explained and the part about the picture book where the very definition, its functions and types are stated. After that, there are parts that talk about the authors and picture books of "Krejsnica Iva" by Zdenka Maltar and "My Grandma's Village" by Krunoslav Puškar. The goal of this work is to bring picture books worth mentioning to parents, educators and everyone who values their homeland and want it to survive as long as possible and to encourage them to cherish their native speech and pass it on to younger generations so that it is not forgotten.