Roald Dahl’s famed children’s books are being scrubbed by so-called ... not offend women or the transgender community. In “The Witches,” a section saying witches are bald beneath their ...

EXCLUSIVE: There’s some seriously scary stuff going on at London’s National Theatre as the venue prepares for a musical version of Roald Dahl’s The Witches that will feature book and lyrics ...

Roald Dahl’s books have captured the hearts of children ... original score and best animated film of the year. "The Witches" is a 1983 novel by Dahl. Though this dark fantasy story was ...

"In The Witches, a paragraph explaining that ... CBS News has reached out to both Puffin Books and the Roald Dahl Story Company for comment. The changes have been generating backlash among both ...

But the Roald Dahl Story Company ... females” has now been changed to describe them as “witches.” Another example from that book shows the term “flood of females” tweaked to a ...

Dahl’s books are being rewritten to remove language ... have been accused of racism in reappraisals of their work. In The Witches (where witches wear wigs) Dahl had written: “You can’t ...

New editions of classic 20th century children’s books by British author Roald Dahl — such as “Charlie ... Giant Peach,” “Matilda,” “The Witches” and “Fantastic Mr. Fox ...

These are a handful of the many changes to the published books of Roald Dahl. Announced by his publisher ... and the Chocolate Factory," "The Witches" and "Matilda." As the AP reported ...

In his 1983 book The Witches, he writes that witches are bald ... there is certainly nothing wrong with that." Puffin and The Roald Dahl Story Company, which manages the copyrights of Dahl's ...

Text inserted into Roald Dahl’s “The Witches,” after a passage describing ... the Dahl estate decided to go through his books changing words and adding sentences such as the passage above.

New editions of classic 20th century children's books by British author Roald Dahl — such as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "James and the Giant Peach," "Matilda," "The Witches" and ...