Roald Dahl’s New Editions of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, ‘James and the Giant Peach’ And Others Have Been Edited For Sensitivity

The children’s fiction written by Roald Dahl will undergo modification in its next printing, according to a report by the Daily Telegraph. Puffin Books, the British children’s division of the Anglo-American publisher Penguin Random House owned by the German conglomerate Bertelsmann, has hired sensitivity readers to grab their red pens and make “hundreds of changes to the original text” on titles like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda and others so that they “can continue to be enjoyed by all today.” Specifically, the word “fat” has been excised from Dahl’s corpus. Augustus Gloop, the voracious… Read Full Article