摘要:This research explored contemporary cities and children's lives in picture books by a survey of 71 picture books published and translated into Korean from 1996 to 2006. These books represented city or urban life as their stings with children or personified animals as their main characters. They were lassified by four categories. Results were the city space that most frequently appeared in the picture books were streets (73%) including downtown (38%) and back sreets (6%). Emotions displayed by children in the city were mainly negative felings (60%) incuding fear,wory,sadness,and boredom. The most important isue was alienation (28.5%). Main characters barely managed to cope with life in the city (76%).