Last month, media reports began flooding social networks over calls for overhauling Roald Dahl's books. The young adult series has been adapted into a television series and a number of films, including two recent features where Jack Black portrayed the author."īut Stine is just one among a growing number whose works are being altered to appease an elusive readership. "There have reportedly been more than 100 edits to books like 'Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns' and 'I Live in Your Basement!' There are dozens of books in the "Goosebumps" series. He sort of struts when he walks and acts real cool.'" Lee is African-American, and he sort of struts when he walks and acts real cool, like the rappers on MTV videos.' The revised version now calls the character 'tall and good-looking, with brown skin, dark brown eyes and a great, warm smile. In another book, "Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns," Deadline outlines that a "character is described as 'tall and good-looking, with dark brown eyes and a great, warm smile. In another reissuing, "Bride of the Living Dummy," instead of the ventriloquist dummy, Slappy, knocking a girl unconscious with a "love tap," the villain now uses a magic spell. One edit is noted as changing an alien with "at least six chins," to a being that is "at least six foot six." Stine, is the latest author to join the cast of contemporaries whose works are being cleared out to make space for "more inclusive language," according to Deadline.Ĭurrently, Stine is involved in the rewrites with his publisher Scholastic.
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