Norway thing I just realized is really weird: our greatest writer for children I think.
Thorbjørn Egner.
parables and oversimplifying things, makes sense for children's literature.
but.
he has at least two works that feature weird portrayals of africans and are still sold:
sympathetic and easily foiled antagonists that capture the white protagonist because the previous white people that had entered their lands did bad things.
and a parable about an african boy saving his tribe that just contains the word n****r a lot.
also I think both have chocolate for some reason.
and.
he has at least two works where the protagonists are things we are supposed to kill:
bacteria infecting a tooth, brought low by hubris.
and cod, which describes its lifecycle and accepts, but does not seek, its eventual death.