This article aims to carry out a French-Basque descriptive translation study of children’s and young adult literature. For this purpose, a catalogue of 754 entries of French children’s and young adult literature translated into Basque was compiled. More than half of the entries relate to works aimed at children (0-9 years) with the comic being an outstanding genre that accounts for 18% of the entire catalogue. With regard to the source texts’ authors, there is a great number of different writers, arguably because not many are chosen more than once. As for the translators, it is worth highlighting the role of translation agencies, which usually appear in the imprint page as the translator. However, the most interesting fact is the place of publication: although the source language is French, only 9.5% of the entries in the catalogue were published in the French Basque Country. This is due, above all, to the non-official situation of the Basque language in the French state, and causes two different systems to emerge on each side of the border, even though the source (French) and target (Basque) languages are the same.