Trunchbull in Matilda no longer calls her pupils a bunch of midgets but a bunch of squirts.Īnd Mrs Twit from The Twits is no longer ugly. Roald Dahl’s publisher Puffin has made a host of revisions to the latest versions of his books.Īugustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is no longer enormously fat, just enormous. Britain’s Telegraph newspaper detailing hundreds of word changes made to UK editions by Dahl’s publisher and the Roald Dahl Story Company.” TODAY “A new generation of readers might find passages that have been altered from the original text. Roald Dahl’s books were for kids, but they were laced with cruelty… and that’s why some parts have been rewritten. Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.’” Sky News Australia I mean there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere. Maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-jews.
“In one notorious interview with the New Statesman magazine, the bestselling children’s author said: ‘There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity. Roald Dahl was accused of racism after depicting the Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Family as slaves imported from, quote, “the deepest and darkest parts of the African jungle”. His books have been enjoyed by generations of children but the author was no stranger to controversy.
“I think the BFG is a bit of a favourite character of mine, because he’s kind and people think I only write about beastly things.” Roald Dahl, 1989 documentary Over a 55-year career, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and poetry collections, including Matilda, James and the Giant Peach and Fantastic Mr Fox.
“If you could find a good plot, that’s the first step in writing… then you’ve got to embroider it and enlarge it and it’s got to be something fairly crazy.” Roald Dahl, 1989 documentary Roald Dahl was a former fighter pilot and spy from Cardiff who went on to sell 300 million children’s books.
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