Publisher Puffin, an imprint of Penguin Random House Children, did not respond to a request for comment.
In several different books, Newspapers addressed dated gender stereotypes, swapping references to women working as typists for “working as a top scientist”, and related mental health issues. Changed the language – in one instance the substitution of “raging” for “mad”.
The newspaper said that sections had been removed that compared the imagined culinary merits of various nationalities from the perspective of man-eating giants, with Greeks being described as “greasy-tasting” and Japanese people being “slicker” than Norwegians or Americans. Was said to be very small in comparison.
Responding to the report, author Salman Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writings, responded to questions about Dahl’s anti-Semitic remarks and his attitude to race. highlighted, but criticized the changes in his published work.
Rushdie said on Twitter, “Roald Dahl was no angel, but this is absurd censorship. Shame on Puffin Books and the Dahl estate.”