This study investigated selective attention to threat stimuli as a function of behaviorally inhibited temperament and stimuli familiarity. Forty children (ages 8–14) played a memory game in order to familiarize them with a set of faces depicted in photographs. These faces were later used along with novel faces in a pictorial dot probe task including novelty (familiar vs. novel) and threat (angry vs. neutral) conditions. BI was assessed using two self-report questionnaires. Children with BI exhibited an attentional bias towards threat, and they responded faster to unfamiliar faces across trials. There was no evidence for avoidance of threat following initial vigilance.