From Roald Dahl to Goosebumps, revisions to children’s classics are really about copyright – a legal expert explains: The backlash to Puffin Books’ decision to update Roald Dahl’s children’s books has been swift and largely derisive. The publisher has been accused of “absurd censorship”, “corporate safetyism” and “cultural vandalism.” At its core, however, updating Roald Dahl’s …
Roald Dahl: A brief history of sensitivity edits to children’s literature: Puffin Books have worked with the consultancy Inclusive Minds (who say they help publishers, authors and illustrators work towards authentic inclusion, accessibility, and diverse representation) to revise some of the language used in Roald Dahl’s books for children, more than 100 years after his …
I was an adoring Dahl fan as a child but let’s not reissue them for a new generation: If children are built, in part, by the books they’re raised on, then I was all Roald Dahl. From my small bedroom in suburban Essex, his stories allowed me to try on new and distinctly more exciting …
How Roald Dahl became a passionate vaccine advocate: To Olivia, a new film on Sky Cinema, captures the year (1962) that author Roald Dahl’s daughter died of measles encephalitis. The death of seven-year-old Olivia nearly tore the family apart. This terrible story will be new to many people, but it’s not new to me. I …