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The play features a masterly performance by John Lithgow in the role of Dahl.
It’s a little too dark for small children and not funny enough.
The original storyline for Road Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” contained some stunning parallels to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
These are some of the most literal and faithful Roald Dahl adaptations ever put on screen.
While educators in Netflix’s ‘Matilda the Musical’ aren’t meant to be blueprints for contemporary teaching, they suggest the powerful ways attentive adults can make a difference in children’s lives.
Sensitivity edits benefit copyright holders, who wish to keep less tasteful elements of the works they control out of the public eye.
Let Dahl’s books be seen for what they are: things of the past, to be appreciated as such.
Abridged family versions of classic works aimed at children were published throughout the 20th century.
Children’s books implicitly shape the minds of young readers - and are covertly censored in many ways. But revising occasional words will usually not shift the values regarded as outdated in the text.
With his delightful drawings for children’s books, the British illustrator has helped to promote and preserve a rich graphic arts heritage in the UK.
The fraught history of the Oompa-Loompas captures the irresolvable tension at the heart of children’s literature and theatre: it is impossible to separate these stories from the ideological fabric of our world.
Anguished cries of ‘cancel culture’ rang out with news that six Dr Seuss books would be shelved. But canceling Dr Seuss is not possible, nor is it the best way to build diversity and understanding.
Roald Dahl’s daughter Olivia died of measles aged seven.
He called them ‘stinkers’ and ‘nauseating little warts’, but author Roald Dahl’s characterisation of children as vulnerable is necessary for them to ultimately triumph.
These books will kickstart a lifelong love of reading, and build a bedtime bond between parent and child.
An idyllic childhood in Wales inspired one of the world’s most treasured children’s writers in unexpected ways.
A war hero and a philanthropist, or a bully and a misogynist – there are many versions of the enigmatic author.
From Jabberwocky to the BFG’s gobblefunking, playing with words is the first step to mastering them – not something to be ironed out of teaching.
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