Over a dozen books by one of the world’s most successful children’s authors, RL Stine, have had references to mental health, weight and ethnicity removed or changed.
The titles from Stine’s Goosebumps series, which has sold more than 300 million copies and is the second biggest-selling book series after Harry Potter, have been re-released as sanitised ebooks by the publisher Scholastic.
The children’s horror novels now include more than 100 edits such as a character being described as “cheerful” rather than “plump”, references to villains making victims “slaves” being removed and “crazy” being changed to “silly”.
In one story about aliens abducting large people and eating them, a character described as having “at least six chins” is now “at least six feet six”.
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