The field of translation of children's literature requires more special work than others. Since it is the child reader that is at stake, it is undeniable that this task requires much more attention and care. In this work, the four Turkish translations (1940, 1948, 1959, 2006) of one of the popular works, "The story of a Donkey", by the Countess of Ségur, a prosperous and popular writer of children's literature, have been selected among the other translations called (considered) adaptation on our part. While focusing on the importance of the translator's attitude during the translation process, the target-oriented approach (Riita Oittinen, Emer O’Sullivan, Toury) considered quite popular lately is criticized from the point of view of the literary, educational role of translation having children as the reader of the foreign culture. Using the classification of Göte Klingberg, E. Benveniste and the classification of Grit and Holmes, toponyms, anthroponyms and cultural elements (food, clothing, religion, money, hours, measurements) were analyzed according to the strategy of domestication and foreignization of Venuti. Several findings are made based on the language which differs from one translation to another reflecting the effects of their time according to Toury's theory. Always supporting the contribution of a work in a child's life (no matter what kind, an original work developing one’s knowledge of one’s own culture or a translation developing one’s knowledge of a foreign culture), this source of richness, the foreign work, cannot be transmitted other than by adopting a faithful, source-oriented approach as much as possible in a translation of children's literature.

Keywords

Translation of Children's Literature, Target-Oriented, Source-Oriented, Domestication, Foreignization, Cultural Elements.