Having never read any of his work, I was under impression that Roald Dahl wrote literature appropriate for children.
I recently started reading ‘Matilda’ with my younger daughter and finding it out to be inappropriate for very young kids.
Dude had serious dark side. I now call him ‘Stephen King for kids’.
On the related note, my high school going kid got assigned a book called ‘There There’ by ‘Tommy Orange’.
The book is all well and good but kid mentioned that it has too much profanity and cursing in it.
I know kids now a days are not shy of swearing (I mean just take a look at their Discord chat) but if the book is making a high schooler uncomfortable, may be something is not right with teacher officially assigning such books as part of ‘Language and Arts’.
The kids are all right but I am just getting old, I guess.
