Facing backlash from readers and authors, on 23 February Puffin Books announced that Dahl's original publications would be released alongside the expurgated versions as the "The Roald Dahl Classic Collection", but did not retract the revisions. A report from British newspaper The Telegraph determined that Puffin Books altered hundreds of passages in Dahl's work, including in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr Fox, and The Witches. Dahl's comments received renewed attention in the years leading up to the controversy, with his family issuing an apology for his comments in 2020.ĭuring his lifetime Dahl had enjoined his publishers not to "so much as change a single comma in one of my books", but on 19 February 2023 Puffin Books announced it had hired sensitivity readers over the span of three years to assess Dahl's works, rereleasing his work with multiple changes regarding Dahl's depiction of race, sex, and character.
Following Dahl's death in 1990, multiple works of his were examined further, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, and Dahl's short story collection Switch Bitch. Reviewing Australian author Tony Clifton's God Cried, a picture book about the siege of West Beirut during the 1982 Lebanon War, Dahl used several antisemitic tropes, including claiming that the United States was "dominated by Jewish financial institutions". Puffin Books, the children's imprint of the British publisher Penguin Books, expurgated various works by British author Roald Dahl in 2023, sparking controversy.ĭahl has received criticism for anti-Semitic comments and his use of racial and sexual stereotypes.
Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Works by Roald Dahl (pictured in 1988) were expurgated in 2023. Publishers Weekly Who but Roald Dahl could think up such mouthwatering and deliciously disgusting foods as Lickable Wallpaper and Stink Bugs' Eggs? Now there' s a practical guide to making these and other delicacies featured in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach' and Dahl' s other books, with easy, step-by-step recipes that range from the delectable to the truly revolting.
Dahl, one suspects, would have been tickled. Quentin Blake's illustrations combine with full-color photographs of the luscious results to perfectly capture Roald Dahls wicked sense of fun. Who but Roald Dahl could think up such mouthwatering and deliciously disgusting foods as Lickable Wallpaper, Stink Bugs Eggs, and Eatable Pillows? Now theres a practical guide to making these and other delicacies featured in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Roald Dahl's other books, with easy, step-by-step recipes that range from the delectable to the truly revolting.
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