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Problem Statement: 1-Which idioms are included in preschool children's books? 2-How do preschool children reflect the idioms in the examined books to their drawings? Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study is to examine what idioms in children's story books and how preschool children perceive idioms.   Method(s): This research, which is designed in qualitative model, consists of two stages. In the first stage of this study, content analysis of 3-6 age children's books; in the second stage, the drawings of children were examined through descriptive analysis. The study material consisted of 354 books in the Child Department of Ankara Adnan Ötüken Provincial Public Library and the study group consisted of five and six years old 19 children attending a preeschool in Ankara, Turkey in the 2017-2018 academic year. In the first stage, content analysis was made and the expressions in the books were determined. In the second stage, three idioms were chosen by lot, three books containing these idioms were read to the children and children were asked to draw what they understood from this idiom in the book.   Findings and Discussions: In this study, it is stated that the idioms in daily life take place in the story books more frequently. For example, the highest frequency of falling asleep (f: 18), bored (f: 11) are common idioms used in daily conversations. In addition, unfrequently used idioms are often given in the sentence with their meaning. The use of idioms with their meaning contributes to the acquisition of new idioms into vocabulary for children (Pektaş, 2015).The author should pay attention to the language and style used in the book. The use of the language of daily life facilitates the acquisition of language (Tür & Turla, 1999). Therefore, children's books have an important place for children to be familiar with daily idioms at an early age.   Conclusions and Recommendations: As a result, it is stated that 121 books embodied idioms. It is determined that children have difficulty in understanding idioms, while they draw their pictures, they are influenced by the pictures of the story book and the expression of the idioms in the sentence. With reference to these, expressions explaining the meaning of idioms in children's books should be included and the pictures in the books should support the meaning of idioms. It is important to keep the idioms limited in the story books and to include the idioms that children may encounter in daily life by considering their cognitive levels. It would be useful for the books to be checked by experts in the field of child literature, preschool education and child development and education.

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