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Penguin has defended its decision to use an image of a doll-like young girl on the cover of a new edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The cover was deemed "misleading" and "creepy". Author Giles Paley-Phillips said it looked "more like Lolita".
"This new image for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory looks at the children at the centre of the story, and highlights the way Roald Dahl's writing manages to embrace both the light and the dark aspects of life," said a statement from Penguin
Reacting to the cover, Chocolat author Joanne Harris tweeted: '"I'm not sure why adults need a different cover anyway, but who was it who decided that "adult" meant "inappropriately sexualised"?
A spokeswoman for Penguin stressed that the new edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was "intended for an adult audience", adding that the cover image was not intended to represent either of female children featured in the story.
The image is not intended to represent either Veruca Salt or Violet Beauregarde, publishers say
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28703254
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Looked like a pasty freak that I would not let near a child.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)...really pegs out the ometer.
marle35
(172 posts)It's no surprise that people are creeped out.
Uncanny Valley
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)The beauty pageant kid who was murdered in Colorado a few years ago. Beyond creepy.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)is that parents of young girls are still buying into that princess fantasy bullshit. What a way to make your kid a target!
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)I thought the mother had some sick vicarious fantasy stuff going on. People need to allow children to be children.
tblue37
(65,227 posts)eShirl
(18,479 posts)A personification of the Chocolate Factory?
A female Charlie?