Don't worry, Roald Dahl's original texts will still be published after critics call new editions 'absurd censorship'

Don't worry, Roald Dahl's original texts will still be published after critics call new editions 'absurd censorship'

Entertainment Weekly-Book·2023-03-24 04:00

Roald Dahl's books may have been updated, but the original texts will still be available.

Though Dahl's books — like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, and Matilda — have been beloved for decades and have been adapted multiple times into films, they have also attracted criticism over time due to their use of stereotypes and potentially uncomfortable language. Earlier this week, Penguin's British division Puffin Books announced that they had teamed up with "sensitivity readers" to publish new editions of Dahl's books through their Puffin Books children's imprint. Among other edits, these editions deleted words like "fat," "ugly," "black," "white," "mad," and "crazy" in an effort to make them less offensive for contemporary readers.

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