- The publisher of Roald Dahl’s famed children’s books announced Friday that a “classic collection” of the author’s works will still be kept in print after the mass condemnation of a plan to rewrite hundreds of passages in an effort to remove offensive material.
- Dahl’s famed books, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda, were reportedly edited in new versions to remove descriptive words like “fat.”
- Sensitivity readers went through Dahl’s work and flagged any material that could be potentially offensive to today’s readers — particularly related to topics like mental health, gender, and physical descriptions.
- “We’ve listened to the debate over the past week which has reaffirmed the extraordinary power of Roald Dahl’s books, and the very real questions around how stories from another era can be kept relevant for each new generation,” Francesca Dow, managing editor of Penguin announced on Friday.
