Author Salman Rushdie on Monday decried the editing of Roald Dahl’s children’s books by so-called sensitivity experts looking to appease a modern audience, calling the changes “ab…
, adding that publisher Puffin and the Dahl estate “should be ashamed.”
“Words matter,” begins the notice at the bottom of the copyright page of Puffin’s latest editions of Roald Dahl’s books. Dahl’s publisher Puffin and the Roald Dahl Story Company made the changes in conjunction with Inclusive Minds, a “collective for people who are passionate about inclusion and accessibility in children’s literature.”
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