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    Roald Dahl's publisher responds to backlash by keeping 'classic' texts in print

    "Fat," "ugly" and "horsey face" will remain in Roald Dahl's children's books in the U.K. after all. After a fierce backlash to proposed changes, Dahl's U.K. publisher announced a "classic collection."
    by Elizabeth Blair Feb 24, 2023 2 minutes
    Roald Dahl's U.K. publisher has responded to the backlash by keeping his language intact in a new collection.

    Don't mess with Roald Dahl's language or his "swashboggling" fans. When his UK publisher announced it would be changing some of his words, the response was fierce. "An affront to democracy," wrote one reader responding to 's on the proposed changes. "An exercise in priggish stupidity," read a in . Even the Queen Consort and U.K. Prime Minister the idea of tampering with Dahl's original language.

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