Thursday, March 2, 2023

Why it’s wrong to rewrite Roald Dahl’s children’s books

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/23/roald-dahl-books-rewrite-bowdlerize/

 

“[We should] give children a window into the real past, as the people living there saw it, rather than compress their reading material into an eternal now. If our moral ideas are so self-evidently correct (and to be clear, I think that in many cases they are), then it should be easy to train children to recognize the past’s mistakes. In the process, we can teach them that even people they love and admire are capable of grave errors.”