Children‟s books have a very important function in child‟s developing his mother tongue and gaining a reading culture. For the books to realize this function, their content, outer properties and educational quality should be prepared according to the needs of the child. A book‟s being according to the child makes it compulsory to know the characteristics of the time when the child grow up and his/her interests and requirements changing with the time and also overlapping these with the book. Teachers have big responsibilities in choosing the books and introducing them to the children. The aim of this research is to present the views of primary and Turkish Language teachers of 5th and 6th grades in the center of Burdur concerning the criteria in choosing the children‟s books to be read during the reading hour. A questionnaire which was developed by the researcher was devised as a tool to gather data. There are personal details about teachers in the first part of the questionnaire and the criteria to choose books in the second part. The criteria of choosing books were divided into three groups as “outer structure”, “inner structure” and “educational properties”. The findings have shown that teachers give more importance to inner structure and educational properties of the books while choosing them for reading hour.