The purpose of this study is to study preschool teachers’ perception of children’s literature. The problem I have seen is that the reading of children’s literature is not linked to children’s language development, it is seen more as a pause-activity. I collected the empirical material through structured interviews with 5 different preschool teachers and used the literacy-concept and the sociocultural theory to analyse my findings. The results of this study were that all the involved preschool teachers had a fair understanding of what impact books had on the children’s language development. But a preschool teacher expressed concern about being time-restricted in the preschool, the hours were not enough to make time for reading aloud with the children.