Roald Dahl’s Children’s Books Changed to Make Them More Inclusive

From a Wall Street Journal story by David Luhnow and Max Colchester headlined “Roald Dahl’s Children’s Books Changed to Make Them More Inclusive”:

The British publisher of Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and other children’s books has made hundreds of changes to their texts—altering passages that refer to body weight, race and gender—in an effort to make them more acceptable to contemporary readers.

The modifications drew criticism from Britain’s Conservative government as well as some high-profile authors and free-speech advocates. U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s spokesman said Monday that “you should not gobblefunk around with words,” using a word coined by Mr. Dahl and used in his book “BFG” that means roughly “to tinker.”