Jacqueline Wilson says rewriting children’s books can be justified

Jacqueline Wilson told Good Morning Britain that she was ‘very against meddling with adult classics’. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

Jacqueline Wilson has said editing children’s books to remove inappropriate and dated language is sometimes justified because young people do not have “a sense of history”.

However, the bestselling children’s author told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that she was opposed to “meddling with adult classics”.