Puffin and the Roald Dahl Story Company made the edits with Inclusive Minds, a collective that specializes in “inclusion and accessibility in children’s literature,” according to a spokesperson.
Other examples of Puffin’s editing include the description of Miss Trunchbull in “Matilda” altered from “most formidable female” to “most formidable woman” The Oompa Loompas from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” changed from “small men” to “small people” and “Bunce, the little pot-bellied dwarf” “Fantastic Mr. The report compares the 2001 editions of Dahl’s children’s books to the 2022 editions and finds that the word “fat” has been systematically edited out, including in “The Enormous Crocodile” (1978), “James and the Giant Peach” (1961), “The Twits” (1980) and “The Witches” (1983). Fox,” adapted as an animated film by Wes Anderson with a voice cast of George Clooney and Meryl Streep in 2009, has also been edited to “enormous.”
Dahl had been blatantly antisemitic in media interviews throughout his life, telling the New Statesman in 1983 “Hitler didn’t just pick on for no reason.In 1964 novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” which has been adapted twice as films in 19, starring Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp respectively, for example, the phrase “enormously fat” has been edited to just “enormous.” The same phrase in 1970 book “Fantastic Mr. “Those prejudiced remarks are incomprehensible to us and stand in marked contrast to the man we knew and to the values at the heart of Roald Dahl's stories, which have positively impacted young people for generations,” the company wrote on its website. In 2020, the RDSC apologized for the author’s antisemitism. This is not the first time Dahl has been embroiled in controversy after his passing. Netflix paid a reported $684 million for the Roald Dahl Story Company.
That’s how much Dahl earned in 2021-even though he died in 1990-making him the highest-earning dead celebrity of that year, according to Forbes. “Our guiding principle throughout has been to maintain the storylines, characters, and the irreverence and sharp-edged spirit of the original text,” the RDSC said. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Monday, “we shouldn’t gobblefunk around with words,”-winking at the made-up language often used in Dahl’s stories-“I think it’s important that works of literature and works of fiction are preserved and not airbrushed.” Contra
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