The publisher's decision to airbrush Roald Dahl children's books with woke language, with altered texts including classics like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and The BFG has attracted widespread outrage, particularly in Great Britain.

Breitbart News Jack Montgomery reports on some of the changes:

One passage from The Witches reading "Even if she is working as a cashier in a supermarket or typing letters for a businessman" is contorted into "Even if she is working as a top scientist or running a business" — with the real world existence of female cashiers and secretaries with male bosses apparently being considered beyond the pale.

Paleness, meanwhile, is in itself also considered controversial, as is the lack of it: references to being "White in the face", "white as paper", and "turning white" are changed to avoid the word "white" or removed altogether, while a simple description of two machines in Fantastic Mister Fox as "black" is excised.