Abstract
Apollinaire’s calligrams have absolutely not be written for children. However, the youth literature offers two anthologies of the poet in which these poems are particularly well represented. Furthermore, the tradition of the calligram survived in visual poetry. Some historical figures of this contemporary poetry do not hesitate to adapt their work for young readers and are even found among the literature lists of reference for school. Others, who write more particularly for children, have appropriated the genre and publish collections where the calligram takes various forms. The proposed study highlights the modalities of adaptation of calligrams in youth literature and shows how this creation takes part in the debates on contemporary calligrammatic poetry.