Jamie Oliver has pulled his kids’s e-book from sale, following criticism by First Nations group leaders that his kids’s e-book is offensive and dangerous.
The Guardian newspaper stories that it had been notified Sunday by Oliver’s publishers Penguin Random Home UK that it had withdrawn Billy and the Epic Escape from sale in all international locations the place it holds rights, together with the UK and Australia.
This got here after First Nations Australians known as for the TV chef to withdraw his kids’s e-book, saying it included a “damaging stereotype of First Nations individuals and experiences.”
The Guardian newspaper yesterday reported that the e-book’s subplot has a younger First Nations lady residing in foster care in an indigenous group close to Alice Springs who’s stolen by the e-book’s villain.
The Nationwide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Schooling Company (Natsiec) known as the story “damaging, disrespectful, accusing Oliver of contributing to the “erasure, trivialisation, and stereotyping of First Nations peoples and experiences.”
The Guardian stories that Oliver has now issued a second assertion: “I’m devastated to have triggered offence and apologise wholeheartedly.
“It was by no means my intention to misread this deeply painful situation. Along with my publishers we’ve got determined to withdraw the e-book from sale.”
And his publishers stated: “We now have agreed with creator, Jamie Oliver, that we’ll be withdrawing the e-book from sale.”
