Readers can now choose whether to read the original or re-edited versions. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - Publisher Puffin UK on Friday announced it would release the original versions of Roald Dahl’s children’s books to keep the “classic texts in print” following a wave of criticism over their“We’ve listened to the debate over the past week which has reaffirmed the extraordinary power of Roald Dahl’s books,” said Ms Francesca Dow, managing director of Penguin Random House Children’s.
Puffin made hundreds of changes to characters and language in Dahl’s stories, including making the diminutive Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory gender neutral and calling Augustus Gloop enormous rather than fat. A spokesman for the Netflix-owned Roald Dahl Story Company, which controls the rights to the books, said it was not unusual for publishers to review the language used for new print runs, and that its guiding principle had been to try to maintain the “irreverence and sharp-edged spirit of the original text”.
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