France Cancels Order For Modern ‘Beauty And The Beast’ For Schoolchildren
Paris: France’s education ministry has cancelled an order for “Beauty and the Beast” with modern illustrations, saying a cartoonist’s 21st-century version including a police sniffer dog and smartphones was inappropriate for tweens. Julien Berjeaut, whose pen name is Jul, had been asked to illustrate an 18th-century version of the famous fairy tale for a government … Read more