Reading culture is one of the key themes in literary works, which is a touchstone for the society to develop in certain ways. Analyzing the theme of reading culture in children’s literature is vital in order for increasing tendency for this theme in literary works, making people read more literary works by putting forward to quality literary works regarding reading culture and contributing to the promotion of reading culture. The aim of this study is to analyze illustrated children’s literary works with the theme of reading culture in a thematic manner, thereby examining eighteen illustrated books through document and content analysis methods, which are accepted as quality literary works according to the Scale for the Evaluation of Children’s and Youth Literary Works by Prof. Dr. Sedat Sever, and selected among illustrated and translated children’s books with the theme of reading culture that were first published between 2016 and 2020. As a result of the research, it has been determined that the works have contents that will create positive perceptions in children about books, libraries and the act of reading, and the ways in which the themes are handled are beneficial for the development of reading culture in the society.