Puffin, the children's imprint of Penguin, announced 'The Roald Dahl Classic Collection' after news that his original text had been altered drew criticism. The classic collection offers readers 17 of his original titles free of any sensitivity rewrites.
The decision to publish “The Roald Dahl Classic Collection” comes just days after Puffin, the children’s imprint of Penguin Random House, faced an onslaught of backlash for announcing alterations of Dahl’s texts in new editions of the 20th century books. The classic collection, however, would offer readers 17 of Dahl’s original titles free of any sensitivity rewrites.
Classics like “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Matilda” and “The Witches” were sanitized to remove offensive and insensitive language. Some references to ethnicity, gender, physical characteristics and mental health were changed to adhere to more modern sensibilities.the original text to the altered versions and found rewrites that included using “enormous” rather than “fat” to describe Augustus Gloop in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Celebrated author Salman Rushdie, who is also published by Penguin Random House, called the move “absurd censorship,” writingPEN American Chief Executive Suzanne Nossel was another critic of the move. “At @PENamerica we are alarmed at news of ‘hundreds of changes” to venerated works by @roald_dahl in a purported effort to scrub the books of that which might offend someone,” Nossel
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