Plus: The £1 jar of pickle that could help you lose weight and inside a riotous Venetian festival where anything goes
 |  | | The Twits, George’s Marvellous Medicine, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda... Roald Dahl’s darkly funny children’s stories are known and loved by all of us – but pick up a 2022 copy of one and you may notice some differences in its telling. The publishers at Puffin have made various edits to Dahl’s works to bring them in line with contemporary sensibilities, resulting in hundreds of changes to the stories, from the “cloud-men” in James and the Giant Peach becoming the “cloud-people”, to Mrs Twit no longer being described as ugly and beastly but simply beastly.
But where does sensible pruning give way to unnecessary tinkering? Scroll down to find out how the books have changed – and why the rewriting of Roald Dahl could be the start of a slippery slope.
Meanwhile, discover the £1 jar of pickle that could help you lose weight (and get the recipe) and explore a riotous Venetian festival where “anything goes”.
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