The paper presents Cankar's entry into the field of youth literature through papers published in the magazines Zvonček and Vrtec. with the texts Mater je zatajil (He Denied His Own Mother), V god (For Name Day). The main part of this paper is comprised of the analysis of four curricula for the school subject Slovene language. On the basis of the analysis, it was found that the proportion of Cankar's texts has steadily decreased in the period 1984-2018 (1984 (12 + 1), 1998 (4 + 1), 2011 (4 + 1) and 2018 (1)). At the same time, there was an increasing share of modernisation to his texts in adaptations (picture books, comics). Cankar is a Slovene classic, characterized by cross-writing, as it is a condition for canonization in a school canon.
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