I bought a big set of Roald Dahl books at Costco last year. Erik is finally at a point where he can listen for a sustained period of time, so I started reading a couple of chapters a night. We did Charlie and the Chocolate Factory first. I know it is a fun book, but it was making me uncomfortable. It is extremely anti-fat, an attitude I don’t want to share with my son. In the book it is really easy to tell if someone is bad. If they are fat they are greedy and nasty. Guaranteed. <\/p>\n
He loved the book and I tried to have a little conversation about fat people not being evil, which did not seem to break the surface of Erik’s brain.<\/p>\n
Next up, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. I don’t think I’ve ever read it (or most of Dahl’s books, because I never found them particularly enchanting as a child). <\/p>\n
Holy racism batman! Erik wants to continue reading it, but I think the book is going to have to get “lost” and we’ll move on to the set of Beverly Cleary books I have stashed in the closet. Dahl certainly had some opinions. And they were mostly nasty.<\/p>\n
Are his other books like this as well? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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