Penguin Random House announced it will publish untouched 'classic' versions of Roald Dahl's children's novels after the publisher faced widespread backlash for deciding to edit his stories for younger audiences.
said Friday it will now publish 17 titles that "will include archive material relevant to each of the stories."the debate over the past week which has reaffirmed the extraordinary power of Roald Dahl’s books and the very real questions around how stories from another era can be kept relevant for each new generation,", managing director of Penguin Random House Children's, said in a press release on Friday.
The publication date of the new books — which are a part of "The Roald Dahl Classic Collection" — has not been announced.will be released alongside the controversial Dahl books for young readers, which were "designed for children who may be navigating written content independently for the first time," Penguin said.Some of the new changes
to Dahl's books — like "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Witches" — included edits to wording around subjects such as "weight, mental health, gender and race,"The word "fat," for example, was removed from passages describing Augustus Gloop from the Willy Wonka classic. The word "ugly" was also dropped.
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