Childrenโs horror author R.L. Stine has accused his publisher of editing references to weight, mental health, and ethnicity in over a dozen of his books without his permission.
Certain titles from theย Goosebumpsย anthology, second only to theย Harry Potterย books in terms of popularity, have been re-released as sanitized e-books by Scholastic,ย a new report fromย The Timesย has revealed.ย The move comes afterย huge controversy envelopedย the British publisher of Roald Dahlโs books for hundreds of similar changes,ย leading the publisher to agree to continue printing the original versions alongside the new bowdlerized editions.
{snip} Oneย Goosebumpsย character is now โcheerfulโ instead of โplump.โ Elsewhere the word โcrazyโ has been changed to โsilly.โ And a character...