Frustration education plays an important role in children's physical and mental health development.Children's frustration situation theme picture books provide rich and important resources for children's frustration education.This study uses qualitative analysis software NVivo 12.0 to encode and analyze 50 children's frustration situation theme picture books published in China,and finds three core nodes:frustration causes,frustration situation types and frustration response.The results show that the causes of frustration are mainly subjective and objective.There are five types of frustration situations:communication frustration situation,learning frustration situation,life frustration situation,self-esteem frustration situation and sudden frustration situation.Frustration response includes negative frustration performance and positive frustration response.