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Author backed down over publisher’s concerns about potentially embarrassing misinterpretationsLiterature is open to many interpretations, but as the former children’s laureate Julia Donaldson discovered, some are more embarrassing than others.The writer has revealed that an original line for her and illustrator Axel Scheffler’s children’s classic Superworm was changed after an awkward conversation with Donaldson’s longtime publisher, Alison Green, who objected to her opening couplet: “Superworm is long and pink, Superworm can grow and shrink.” Continue reading...