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The article address certain problems connected with illustrating Julian Tuwim’s poems for children, or, in other words, translating them into images. It approaches this issue from the perspective of a specialist in visual communication rather than a literary scholar. The observations made by the author are based on a survey conducted among the illustrators of one of the most well-known, recent editions of Tuwim’s poems and the first-year students of graphic design at the Pedagogical University of Cracow. The article points to a number of challenges that a contemporary illustrator of Tuwim’s works is faced with.