“By making both Puffin and Penguin editions available, we are giving readers the option to decide how they experience the magical, wonderful stories of Roald Dahl,” Francesca Dow, Managing Director of Penguin Random House Children, said in a statement. Many of Dahl’s stories feature a haughty adult character that a child must overcome. Dahl’s biting […]
In ‘The Witch’, a paragraph suggesting that witches are bald under their wigs ends with the new line: “There are many other reasons why women wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that. “ In ‘James and the Giant Peach’, Centipede sings: “Aunt SpongeBob was very fat / And awfully flabby at that,” […]
