If we accepted all bodies, it wouldn’t matter Augustus Gloop was fat and we wouldn’t fear a word might offend
Augustus Gloop (Philip Wiegratz) in the 2005 film of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'
Stefanie Preissner
You may have heard recently that Puffin Books hired sensitivity readers to screen Roald Dahl’s books for offensive language and remove it from new editions of the children’s classics.
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