The fun police (in this case Netflix having grabbed rights in 2021 but Puffin are still doing various things as part of this, he died in 1990 so copyright is likely to last a while yet, UK being 70 years after the author’s death, the books being from the 1960s to a few just after his death for those place that do since published) having smeared their greasy selves over aspects of popular culture now appear to be after legendary children's book (and a few other things but mostly known for that) author Roald Dahl. Author of such classics as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (and its sequel the great glass elevator), George and the Giant Peach, the BFG, the Witches, Matilda, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Twits, George's Marvellous Medicine, Danny the Champion of the World, most of which have been made into legendary films. In this case they appear to have employed "sensitivity readers" as they called to justify their existence in the company by finding something that someone might imagine they are offended by (one of which is "fat" as a descriptor for characters).
News article (there are several others if you prefer) covering some of the change
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...rewritten-to-remove-language-deemed-offensive
A video
Usual boo censorship. Anything that particularly strikes you as odd in the examples? Got any waiting in your attic for ebay (assuming they don't ban old versions like they did for some other things)? Going to now have to avoid these versions for your kids or are you delighted that your kids or subsequent reads will be untroubled (at least until a new crop of words becomes time to come over all unnecessary).
Previously we saw this happen for legendary American children's book author Dr Seuss. https://gbatemp.net/threads/some-dr-seuss-books-taken-down.584207/
Another little interesting read into it happening for a author being published
https://unherd.com/2022/02/how-sensitivity-readers-corrupted-literature/ and again several others have published their experiences with such if you want that.
News article (there are several others if you prefer) covering some of the change
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...rewritten-to-remove-language-deemed-offensive
A video
Usual boo censorship. Anything that particularly strikes you as odd in the examples? Got any waiting in your attic for ebay (assuming they don't ban old versions like they did for some other things)? Going to now have to avoid these versions for your kids or are you delighted that your kids or subsequent reads will be untroubled (at least until a new crop of words becomes time to come over all unnecessary).
Previously we saw this happen for legendary American children's book author Dr Seuss. https://gbatemp.net/threads/some-dr-seuss-books-taken-down.584207/
Another little interesting read into it happening for a author being published
https://unherd.com/2022/02/how-sensitivity-readers-corrupted-literature/ and again several others have published their experiences with such if you want that.