World literature and children’s classics

In the course of my argument so far I have shown, especially in Chapter 3, that ‘international’ children’s literature is predominantly the literature of one part of the world for children all over the world, and that works of fiction flooding the international market are, in the levelling process of globalism, increasingly losing their culture-specific nature. In the following chapter these findings will be studied in the context of the discussion of ‘world literature’ and children’s classics.