Dame Jacqueline Wilson has declared she is ‘very against meddling with adult classics’. However, she does think editing children’s books is sometimes justified as young people ‘still haven’t got the power to sort things out and have a sense of history’.
have been rewritten to cater for the sensitivities of modern audiences.
Blyton, the author of beloved book series including The Famous Five, Noddy and Malory Towers, has been criticised for racism and xenophobia in her books and her novels have been the subject to ‘sensitive text revisions’.Dame Jacqueline Wilson sees the sense in editing kids’ books, but is ‘very against’ rewrites for adult classics told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: ‘I’m a kind of middle of the road person, I think it depends how it’s done.
‘I think with children, they often absorb texts. They still haven’t got the power to sort things out and have a sense of history.’
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