English author Roald Dahl has made hundreds of changes to the children’s books and Puffin has added new text to make it gender-neutral, “body-positive” and get rid of “offensive language,” according to The Guardian on February 19th. .
The publisher has removed or replaced all words that could be construed as “offensive”. Changes have been made to character appearance descriptions. The word “fat” was dropped from each new edition, and the word “ugly” was also dropped.
Thus, Augustus Gloop’s character in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is now described not as “fat” but as “enormous”. In the story “Witches”, the paragraph explaining that witches are bald under their wigs ends with a new line: “There are many other reasons why women may wear wigs, and there’s certainly nothing wrong with that.”
Gender-neutral terms have been added and the word “man”, which means both “man” and “man”, has been removed from the books. So, the Oompa-Loompas from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” were previously described as “little men” (little men), now they have become “little people” (little people).
The words “crazy” and “crazy” “the writer used in a comic way”, they were also removed from his books, as were many other words.
Hundreds of changes were reportedly made to the author’s original text, and some passages were added that Dahl had not written. The Roald Dahl Story Company stated that “there is nothing unusual in revising the language” during the new draw, and the changes were “small and well thought out.”
Puffin and the Roald Dahl Story Company have made changes with Inclusive Minds, which a spokesperson says is “a collective of people who are passionate about the idea of inclusion and accessibility of children’s literature.”
Recall that Puffin and the Roald Dahl Story Company was bought by Netflix in 2021.
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