Housewife wins battle with publisher to remove four-letter swear word from children’s book, My Sister Jodie

A housewife has taken on the combined might of one of Britain’s best-selling children’s authors and a leading publishing house and won.??

Random House Children’s Books has agreed to remove a four-letter swearword from a popular book by Dame Jacqueline Wilson, after complaints from Anne Dixon, who? insists she is standing up for values of common decency.??

The 55-year-old said she was horrified when she came across the expletive in the best-selling book My Sister Jodie – a gift for her nine-year-old great-niece, Eve Coulson.??

She complained to Asda, in Stanley, County Durham, where she bought the book, and the store initially removed it from sale.

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Joycellyn Akuffo

Founder and editor of www.motherswhowork.co.uk, a mother of two wonderful children, wife, entrepreneur (check out www.geekschool.co.uk) and journalist.

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