Translation of culture-specific items is one of the biggest challenges for translators. Today, there is a great deal of various classifications of translation procedures for culture-specific items, while all of them are based on Vinay and Darbelnet’s classification of translation procedures. Vinay and Darbelnet were a pair of French scholars that worked within text-oriented approach, whose main concept is equivalence. We might say that, literary works are packed with culture-specific items such as personal names, food and beverages, politics, clothing etc., and are a part of author’s source culture. The aim of this thesis is to determine which translations procedures for translating culture-specific items were employed in the Croatian translation of the children’s novel Matilda written by the famous British author Roald Dahl, and to how the choice of the procedures influences the general orientation of the target text. The analysis is composed of four categories in which the following culture-specific items were organized: personal names and surnames, geographical names, food and beverages, measures and currency. The results have shown that the most frequent procedures in the Croatian translation of Matilda were phonological replacement and substitution, while in translating measures and currency the most frequent procedure was cultural equivalent. Both procedures are typical for orientation towards the target culture. On the other hand, the most frequent procedures in translating geographical names, food and beverages were omission and descriptive translation using hypernyms.