> So I started to read Charlie and the Glass Elevator to him and stopped only a few pages in when some very offensive caricatures of Chinese people talking in E

> So I started to read Charlie and the Glass Elevator to him and stopped only a few pages in when some very offensive caricatures of Chinese people talking in English showed up. Couldn't you have just skipped over this bit? Or paraphrased it to your child? I understand that you may have been just reading along and found yourself reading out 'bad stuff' but for me, that would just be the point where I would have stopped and done either of the two options above (skip or summarise).