The Queen Forces U-Turn In Roald Dahl Censorship Row

[naomi24]

//Last week, it emerged that the best-selling children’s books were being rewritten to remove language considered offensive.

The word “fat”, for example, had been cut from every book. Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is instead described as “enormous”.

Camilla gave an impassioned defence of free speech and the right of writers to express themselves at Clarence House on Thursday 23 February, just days after she let it be known privately that she had serious concerns over the changes to Dahl’s books.

Puffin has now issued a statement announcing that it will make both the original and censored versions available to readers.//

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/roald-dahl-puffin-censored-original-camilla-b2288880.html

Well done, Camilla! A victory for common sense. I sincerely hope that every copy of the edited version is left to rot.

[Atheist]

Naomi, I did read the link. I hope you didn't think that I thought that you had made a silly logical fault. (It helps if you put 'speech marks' around quotations from other people's silly headlines) :-)

[naomi24]

Everyone else seems to have managed, atheist.

[maggiebee]

Is she going to step in to stop changes being made to Ian Fleming's James Bond books. Just read that they are to be rewritten - on Yahoo but not confirmed.