Sue Bradley on her conversation with the late Marni Hodgkin about the ‘malicious quality’ to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant PeachRe the letters criticising Roald Dahl’s works (Roald Dahl’s mean and nasty books don’t deserve all this attention, 23 February), in an oral... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-03-01 17:24:42 UTC ]
Australia has a history of removing controversial elements from children’s texts, but the question of whether they should be edited is not easy to answerGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe news this week that some works of bestselling children’s author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-02-25 23:00:04 UTC ]
Series will be released alongside controversially amended versions to leave readers ‘free to choose which version they prefer’A collection of Roald Dahl’s books with unaltered text is to be published after a row over changes made to novels including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-02-24 13:26:39 UTC ]
Author Salman Rushdie among those angry after some passages relating to weight, gender, mental health and race were rewrittenCritics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books of censorship after it removed colourful language from works such as Charlie and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-02-20 04:05:42 UTC ]
Critics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books of censorship after it removed colorful language from works such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Matilda” to make them more acceptable to modern readers Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2023-02-20 00:47:34 UTC ]
Roald Dahl holds a special place in my childhood. I still have vivid memories of reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda in school (we even read his rather unsavory memoir Boy; his accounts of boarding school bullying haunt me to this day!) and of watching the delightful early ’90s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-11-20 12:00:50 UTC ]
Netflix will create an original animated series of Roald Dahl stories including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and The Twits. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
As of today, Peppa Pig remains a bestseller in China. Winnie the Pooh continues to sell, and so does Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. There has been no restriction on these titles or on other foreign publications and translations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The children's book by Roald Dahl is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chapter with more characters and Quentin Blake illustration deemed 'too wild' for British children appears for first timeA lost chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, deemed too wild, subversive and insufficiently moral for the tender minds of British children almost 50 years ago, has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The discovery of new unpublished chapters reveals author Roald Dahl planned to include more children in his classic children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but dropped them from the final version. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin has defended its decision to use an image of a doll-like young girl on the cover of a new edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Characters from children's books often take on legendary status in the popular imagination. Peter Pan inspired his own pathological syndrome (and maybe R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly"); Willy Wonka led to a real–world candy company; and hundreds of wannabe Hobbits live in commercially... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]