I don't understand the cover in the context of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a book. But I do like the surreal nature of the covers imagery.
And I actively dislike the Quentin Blake imagery used in the current edition of the book through Puffin (with it's horrible and garish red all over the place and the back cover which just has cheap written all over it).
So change is needed, and the surreal is quite possibly the correct direction to go, but this is a somewhat perplexing decision.
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