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Anger over ‘sexualised’ cover for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

August 8, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

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.

 

Anger over ‘sexualised’ cover for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Publisher’s attempt to make 50th anniversary edition of Dahl’s classic appeal to adults backfires

via Anger over ‘sexualised’ cover for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Publisher’s attempt to make 50th anniversary edition of Dahl’s classic appeal to adults backfires | Mail Online.

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.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: anniversary, cover, design, jacket, Mauro Mongiello, Penguin, Sofia Sanchez

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