The paper analyzes articles from the field of literature in the early Croatian children's encyclopedias that were being published between 1929 and 1962, namely: Knjiga za tebe, Svjetska čudesa, Znanje i radost and Svijet oko nas. The analysis determined the proportion of articles in the field of literature versus those from other areas of human knowledge and how much literature, and especially that of children's, was important at the time when they were published. Also, it is about authors whose texts are published, types of texts and illustrations that follow them. It is defined what children's literature is, and what makes the childhood encyclopaedia differ from the adult encyclopaedia, what are the themes of interest and how the general knowledge in them is presented to children and young people. The analysis of articles reveals that the area of literature is largely covered in the volumes of the Encyclopaedia Znanje i radost (1942-1944), and selected examples of works are works of the most famous domestic and foreign writers. Following the volumes comes a picture book and a book for young people, Svjetska čudesa (1929-1937), which contains short stories written by well-known writers of the German speaking area. Third, according to the share of literature in total, is the first Croatian children's encyclopedia, Knjiga za tebe (1930). Encyclopedia for children and youth Svijet oko nas (1960-1962) contains, to a minimum, articles in the field of literature. While in the analyzed encyclopedias, articles in the field of literature are manifested in different shapes and quantities, the value of none of them should be diminished, because their appearance and content is the result of the social situations of the time they emerged.