Children's Literature in Translation

Jan Van Coillie is emeritus professor at the Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven where he taught Applied Linguistics, Children’s Literature and Children’s Literature and Translation. Jack McMartin is assistant professor of Translation Studies and English at KU Leuven.

• Contributors Introduction: Studying texts and contexts in translated children’s literature Jan Van Coillie & Jack McMartinPart 1 Context » Text“Only English books”: The mediation of translated children’s literature in a resistant economy Gillian LatheyTwo languages, two children’s literatures: Translation in Ireland today Emer O’SullivanCultural translation and the recruitment of translated texts to induce social change: The case of the Haskalah Zohar ShavitAssociative practices and translations in children’s book publishing: Co-editions in France and Spain Delia Guijarro ArribasTranslation and the formation of a Brazilian children’s literature Lia A. Miranda de Lima & Germana H. PereiraSaid, spoke, spluttered, spouted: The role of text editors in stylistic shifts in translated children’s literature Marija Zlatnar Moe & Tanja ŽigonDiversity can change the world: Children’s literature, translation and images of childhood Jan Van CoilliePart 2 Text » ContextThe creative reinventions of nonsense and domesticating the implied child reader in Hungarian translations of Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandAnna Kérchy“Better watch it, mate” and “Listen ’ere, lads”: The cultural specificity of the English translation of Janusz Korczak’s classic Król Maciuś Pierwszy Michał BorodoBrazilian rewritings of Perrault’s short stories: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century versus twenty-first-century retellings and consequences for the moral message Anna Olga Prudente de OliveiraTranslating crossover picture books: The Italian translations of Bear Hunt by Anthony Browne Annalisa SezziPettson and Findus go glocal: Recontextualization of images and multimodal analysis of simultaneous action in Dutch and French translations Sara Van Meerbergen & Charlotte LindgrenTranslating violence in children’s picture books: A view from the former Yugoslavia Marija TodorovaDefying norms through unprovoked violence: The translation and reception of two Swedish young adult novels in France Valérie AlfvénIndex

'Children’s Literature in Translation. Texts and Contexts' presents a collection of diverse international case studies, framed by a useful introductory chapter, that could pave the way for more closer examinations of translated children’s literature and the process of translating different text formats for children within children’s literature studies, also bridging cultural and geographic differences within the field.Carla Plieth, Pub Res Q 38, 795–797 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-022-09921-1