TY - JOUR
TI - “Nothing but the best is good enough for the young.” Dilemmas of the Translator of Children’s Literature
AU - Albińska, Karolina
TI - “Nothing but the best is good enough for the young.” Dilemmas of the Translator of Children’s Literature
AB - 
	No doubt the world without Winnie the Pooh, Pippi Longstocking, Pinocchio or Moomin Trolls would have been less colourful. Characters from fairy tales imperceptibly slip into young readers’ minds and tend to stay there forever. Children accept them unconditionally and do not ask questions about their descent. Children’s response to books is usually very spontaneous: a love at first sight or an immediate dislike. Therefore, it is very important that they receive “the best” – not only beautiful and wise books but also books that are skillfully translated. Discussing the role of the translator of children’s literature, this article focuses on the child – translator relationship and the translator – author dichotomy. It points to different attitudes toward the translator’s creativity and “visibility.” It examines terminological ambiguities of such notions as “adaptation,” “reconstruction,” “rewriting” and “translation.” Finally, it deals with translation challenges that arise from didactic, entertaining and aesthetic functions of children’s books
VL - Issues in English
IS - Issue 22-23/2009-2010 – Translating Fairy Tales
PY - 2013
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 227
EP - 248
DO - 10.4467/16891864ePC.13.012.0866
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/nothing-but-the-best-is-good-enough-for-the-young-dilemmas-of-the-translator-of-childrens-literature
KW - children’s literature
KW - adaptation
KW - reproduction
KW - retelling
KW - foreignization
KW - domestication