<p>Textbooks are social vehicles. This study aimed at analyzing the way the body of children is represented in the transition cycle textbooks. Images were analyzed based on categories and indicators. They represented both genres equally carrying out different activities in varied settings. Disabled bodies did not appear. Social and cultural constructions of the body are key to discuss results in terms of the required attention to body diversity. Besides, it also highlights the role of social and educational agents at carrying out critical processes about meanings conveyed by textbooks and their influence on the body awareness and children performance in the transition cycle of preschool education.</p>