“Bridging the Sensorial Gaps: Theory and Practice in Translating the Voice of the Adult Aloud Reader in Pre-school Picturebooks”

The translator of picturebooks has to cope with many considerable textual demands as they, being conceived for an oral rendition, seriously challenge his/her ability, even if their structure can deceive. Within the lines of their full-page images and within their other visual and verbal elements, there can be found directions which build up the story to be read aloud by the adult. As picturebooks are aimed at illiterate children, this sort of instructions, guiding the aloud reading of the story, are absolutely essential for the text fruition but the translator is not always aware of their presence or able to face the, leading in this way to performative or stylistic contradictions.