SIR – As the sales director who accompanied Roald Dahl on rare signing sessions and sat behind a row of Oompa-Loompas at the preview of the first film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I am certain he would have been furious at Puffin’s rewording of passages in his books (“How ‘sensitivity readers’ rewrote Roald Dahl”, Features, February 18).
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