This study examines how death is portrayed in three Swedish picture books for children aged 3-6: Adjö, herr Muffin (2002), Min syster ä ren ängel (1996), and Farfar är dum för han är död (2022). Using a narrative and text-centered approach, the analysis explores how existential and theological themes are expressed through text and image. The focus lies on questions concerning relationships, meaning, the afterlife, and conceptions of the divine. The study shows that the picture book functions as an existential arena in which children are given the opportunity to process loss through language, symbolism, and recognition. The results indicate that the selected Swedish picture books approach death in multifaced ways, where religious motifs are integrated as cultural and poetic resources rather than as doctrinal expressions. In this way, children´s literature contributes to meaning making in the face of death and offers a conversational space where both secular and spiritual perspectives can coexist.