A new cover design for the 50th anniversary of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has had a rough reception.
The cover photograph, which many of those quoted in this Daily Mail piece take exception to, was taken from a French magazine fashion shoot by the photographers Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello, entitled Mommie Dearest.
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Penguin said the girl in the cover photograph was not intended to be either Violet Beauregarde or Veruca Salt, the spoilt young girls who feature in Dahl’s tale, but a representation of the ‘twisted’ parent-child relationships depicted throughout the book.