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Description: This study is part of a longitudinal study (from 6 months till 5 years of age) investigating the effect of shared-book reading (SBR) on children’s cognitive and linguistic development. In the present study, we aim to explore the relation between the quality of SBR when children were 24 months old and the pattern of brain activation when the children were participating in a Dimensional Change Card Sort task (DCCS) when they were 5 years of age. We decided to explore for possible relation between the quality of SBR and brain activation during DCCS because previous studies have shown that high quality SBR is related to various positive outcomes such as language processing (Hutton et al., 2015) and executive function (Hutton et al., 2017). While there are studies investigating the direct link between SBR and vocabulary growth (e.g., Simsek & Erdogan, 2021; Wang et al., 2022), there is limited evidence regarding the association between SBR and executive function. We thus aim to explore this relation using our longitudinal data to better understand the influence of SBR on executive function.