Translations and Children’s Literature Issues and Strategies

Abstract

Abstract— Even as education wins notable battles against illiteracy around the world, reading, which is just as essential as literacy itself, if not more so, is steadily declining. Children's literature, the first constructive step in a child's intellectual development, seems to be losing ground to the image-based culture and, above all, the fascination of the screen. Paradoxically, educators, educational psychologists and some parents are well aware that reading is the best language school imaginable, and writers are its unrivalled teachers.

So why this almost total desertion of texts? The increasingly hectic pace of life, no doubt, increasingly busy school curricula, and the chronic unavailability of parents seem to be the objective causes