"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 ...

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

"Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed." MORE: 'The Witches' remake receives backlash from disabled community PEN America CEO ...

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 ...

New editions of classic 20th century children’s books ... Roald Dahl — such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “James and the Giant Peach,” “Matilda,” “The Witches ...

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 ...

A recent report in The Telegraph notes that Puffin, publisher of classics such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Witches, will soon release new editions of the books, sans ...

A reference in “The Witches” to ... were unwarranted. “Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship,” Mr. Rushdie wrote on Twitter. “Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should ...

Text inserted into Roald ... the witches as bald beneath their wigs In a misguided attempt to keep the works of Roald Dahl in circulation, the Dahl estate decided to go through his books changing ...

Roald Dahl’s books have captured the hearts of children — and adults — for generations. His imaginative stories have made way for many popular movies. You may not even know that a handful of ...

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 ...