Daily Mail – 18th November 2007:
A leading children’s author was told to drop a fire-breathing dragon shown in a new book – because the publishers feared they could be sued under health and safety regulations.
It is just one of the politically correct cuts Lindsey Gardiner says she has been told to make in case youngsters act out the stories.
As well as the scene showing her dragon toasting marshmallows with his breath, illustrations of an electric cooker with one element glowing red and of a boy on a ladder have had to go.
Ms Gardiner, 36, who has written and illustrated 15 internationally successful children’s books, featuring her popular characters Lola, Poppy and Max, says such editing decisions are now common.
“I’ve had books published in Japan, France, Spain and Holland and they don’t ask for the same changes.
“It seems to be in Britain and the U.S. that there are problems.”
She looks like a nut job. Maybe it’s the hair.
Next thing you know, “The Phantom Tollbooth” will be banned because the concept of infinity will be considered offensive.
I’d ban her face from kids books.
“It seems to be in Britain and the U.S. that there are problems.”
Maybe it has something to do with their dumb kids.
The result, a whole generation of pussies who have no concept of the real world. But I guess that is the whole point.
“I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of robed sissies.”
Quote from the movie Demolition Man.
It’s the Daily Mail. According to them bubonic plague has broken out, violent criminals roam the streets, and child slavery is commonplace. It’s approximately as reliable as the National Enquirer.