Editing children’s books to remove outdated language can sometimes be justified because young people do not have “a sense of history”, a leading author has said.
However, Jacqueline Wilson said that she was “very against meddling with adult classics” to cater for the sensitivities of modern audiences.
The so-called censoring of works by writers including Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton has come to prominence after it was revealed that their publishers had removed or changed certain words now regarded as offensive.
Jacqeline Wilson wrote the popular Tracy Beaker series of books
During an appearance on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Wilson, 77, who wrote the Tracy Beaker series of books, described herself as a “middle-of-the-road person”.
“I think it depends how it’s done,” she said. “There are some things I think that would make
