"Attractive" is out. "Cashier" is out. "Boys and girls" are out. These are a handful of the many changes to the published books of Roald Dahl. Announced by his publisher Puffin and first reported by The Telegraph, the hundreds of changes have impacted new editions of classic books like "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "The Witches" and "Matilda." As the AP reported, "some passages relating to weight, mental health, gender and race were altered."
Salon's Kelly McClure wrote, "Other big changes are being made to gender-specific character descriptions, swapping 'female' with 'woman,' or doing away with the mention of gender altogether. The Oompa Loompas, a favorite from Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,' will now be called 'small people' rather than 'small men.'"
