The aim of this article is to examine the publishing reception of Polish children’s and young adult literature translated and published in Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1990. Through this analysis, it establishes a publishing chronology and estimates the scale and nature of translation production across specific periods and individual Yugoslav republics. Furthermore, the study also identifies which Polish authors and titles were particularly attractive to Yugoslav publishers and how the structure of the local publishing market and the post-World War II model of children’s and young adult literature influenced the selection of Polish books published in Yugoslavia.

The Serbian lexeme bre is mostly included in interjection word class, in dictionary definitions laconically defined as an interjection used to draw attention to what is being communicated, often in connection with a threat. The aim of the paper will be to examine the use of this language unit through the prism of translation equivalence established on the basis of a double-text, i.e. the Serbian original and its Polish translation. The paper will also include an attempt to answer the question about the usefulness of the double-text in the study of the meaning of these types of units.