The Oompa Loompas of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were, in the original 1964 text and illustrations, presented as exaggeration of pygmy peoples from “the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle.” By 1972, when Dahl published the sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, the description of the factory workers in the new work and in reprints to the original was adjusted to having “golden-brown hair” and “rosy-white” skin, and appearing more like dwarfish hippies. He died in 1990 (and was ranked Forbes’s highest paid dead celebrity in 2021) and did not avoid criticism in his own lifetime.

Forester) was a story about his wartime adventures. His first published work (inspired by a conversation with “Horatio Hornblower” creator C.S. He joined the Royal Air Force during World War II, and was a squadron leader. In The Witches, for example, after it is revealed that Dahl’s witches wear wigs to cover their baldness, upcoming versions will read “There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.”ĭahl was born in 1916 in Wales to wealthy Norwegian parents, was educated in England, and later worked in Kenya and modern-day Tanzania on behalf of Shell Oil. In addition to changes or omissions to the text, new lines have been inserted. Twit of The Twits is no longer described as “fearfully ugly.” Augustus Gloop, the voracious German boy with an insatiable sweet tooth from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is now referred to as “enormous.” Willy Wonka’s tuneful factory workers, the Oompa Loompas, are not referred to as “tiny”, “titchy” or “no higher than my knee,” but merely “small.” Moreover, they are not “small men” but “small people.” Mrs.

Specifically, the word “fat” has been excised from Dahl’s corpus. Puffin Books, the British children’s division of the Anglo-American publisher Penguin Random House owned by the German conglomerate Bertelsmann, has hired sensitivity readers to grab their red pens and make “hundreds of changes to the original text” on titles like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda and others so that they “can continue to be enjoyed by all today.” The children’s fiction written by Roald Dahl will undergo modification in its next printing, according to a report by the Daily Telegraph.

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