By analysing textbooks from the first to the fourth grade of elementary school, the paper investigates the representation of cross-cultural contents in textbooks for early EFL learning. The paper consists of two parts. In the first theoretical part, different definitions of culture, interculturalism and intercultural competence in foreign language teaching are considered. A lot of attention in foreign language teaching is devoted to topics from people´s everyday lives, that is, values and beliefs common to linguistic and social groups. In the second part of the paper, the results of the analysis of the textbooks that make up the corpus of research on the representation of cross-cultural contents and the contents of the Croatian culture in textbooks for early EFL learning, i.e., from the first to the fourth grade of elementary school, are presented. The results of the analysis showed that cross-cultural representation, as well as the representation of the Croatian culture in English language textbooks, is still not sufficient, even though authors of the newer series of textbooks focus primarily on the domicile culture, either through textbooks or through additional teaching materials.