Suzanne Harrington: Roald Dahl rewrites are about money - and protecting the goldmine

Stop it now, and allow Dahl’s work to live and breathe until the work expires naturally, the same way kids no longer read Billy Bunter or Just William or any of those other kids’ classics from the past.

Pic: Andrew Hasson

If, like me, you awake each morning wondering what fresh idiocy awaits, you need look no further than Puffin’s plans to rewrite Roald Dahl

(Puffin’s owner, Penguin, has now decided to keep the originals in print while also publishing the changed texts under the Puffin imprint). Christ on a bicycle. Have we lost our collective minds?