The thesis studies children’s stories which have been published in Croatian children’s literature magazines in the past ten years. The stories are studied at the language level. The goal was to discover what is being accomplished by using specific language forms, as well as whether the stories are appropriate for their readers’ intended age in terms of their lexical and stylistic features. In other words: are they interesting, understandable, educational and stimulating for the development of the reading culture. The goal of the thesis is to analyze the lexis of the children’s story, how much are the elements of conversational language used, elements such as vernacular, colloquial language, foreign words, and archaic words. Other than lexis, the thesis also analyzes the morphological level as well as the syntactic features of the story, in order to show whether the sentences are simple and clear or long and complex, and if they are in sync with the modern way of expression. In terms of style, the thesis studies the figures of speech which give the stories artistic value and enable the young readers to comprehend the world presented in them. There was also an attempt to pinpoint how much orthographic features can affect the meaning and the tone of the story, but there were only a few examples found. It is concluded that the stories vary according to the readers’ age they are intended to, according to language which is substantially different from the language used in classic children’s stories, according to characters as well as figures of speech and lexis used. Based on research results, it is concluded that the stories intended for kindergarten children are adjusted by using simple and understandable language, they are similar to fairy tales and they have anthropomorphic characters or they talk about the subjects from children’s everyday life, but the lexis is closer to modern way of expression.