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Unfairy tales

Leave our fables alone

18 March 2023

9:00 AM

18 March 2023

9:00 AM

It feels like my childhood is being dismantled, not slowly, brick-by-brick, but more with the force of a wrecking ball. A few weeks ago, Roald Dahl, one of the best-known children’s authors of the twentieth century, had a number of his classic books revised. The publisher, Puffin, hired a team of sensitivity readers to pore over his words and make hundreds of changes.

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