Content deemed offensive, such as references to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race have been removed or rewritten to ensure Dahl's classics can be enjoyed by all children, the publishers said.
The rewriting of Roald Dahl's children books to remove language deemed offensive has been branded"absurd censorship".said the publishers, Puffin Books and the Roald Dahl Story Company,"should be ashamed".
Some of the edits reportedly include removing the word"fat" from every book, with Augustus Gloop in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory instead being described as"enormous". The Roald Dahl Story Company claim their review process has been ongoing since 2020 and any edits are"small and carefully considered".
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