Russell Brand's The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Spoiler alert. The children disappear in the end. Weird choice for a children's book. Weirder still to use Alex deLarge, the leader of the 'Droogs' from Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (1971), as the inspiration behind the piper for the illustrations. The book is laden with satanic imagery and New Age socialist nonsense like 'the important prizes can't be won by individuals, only by us all'. Here's another: 'What became of them (the children) is an irrelevant secret and none of us know it , you can decide yourself, in your little brainbox'. It's a creepfest.