Books depicting either a fat or thin girl called Alfina as the central character elicited similarly polarised responses from a second group of 150 reception and year one schoolchildren.

BBC: Children shun fictional 'fat Alfie'

Drives shriveled down to desk size, then to desktop size, then the size of a fat dictionary, followed by a thin paperback, a deck of cards and now just a single card or chip.

FORBES: Digital Rules