Roald Dahl’s Being Edited Off His Own Pages

Sylvia
3 min readFeb 18, 2023
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Puffin Books hired Inclusive Minds to adapt Roald Dahl’s childrens books into “acceptable” works for the modern age. For instance, they removed the word “fat” from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They changed many passages of The Witches to appear more woke and inclusive.

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