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Everyone seems quite scandalised at the moment by the 11 year old dressed as Christian Grey story. Putting aside whether it is or is not appropriate to dress your kid as a character from an erotic?/pornographic? (I haven't read it lol) novel, IMO it's really missing the spirit of the event to dress up as a character from a book that his mother admits that he hasn't even read! World Book Day is supposed to be an event celebrating the reading of books, I thought the idea behind kids dressing up as their favourite literary characters was meant to be from books that they've enjoyed, not their parents favourites? His mother is arguing that Christian Grey is "a character that has been put out there on the television and all aspects of media", but it's not World Television Day is it?

I read another article where the boy said that he was the one who decided to dress up as Christian Grey because he didn't want to dress as a cartoon (the relevance to World Book Day escapes me?!) It's sounding more and more like the school should really be focusing on getting the children reading actual books...