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I'm not keen either. Children can cope with more than you'd think. These sorts of wordings occur in MANY books, and are hardly isolated to one author. Let parents and teachers TALK to their kids about stereotypes and possibly hurtful words.
And what about children who are precocious readers and don't limit themselves to children's books? Are we going to rewrite EVERY title under the sun? And what about the internet, which many children have access to?
I mean, should children be raised to be over-sensitive to practically EVERYTHING? Because it is getting a little ridiculous. Is it really being less derogatory calling someone a "crow" vs. "hag" or am I just old and not with it?
Heaven knows, I was overweight and fat as a child, but I didn't get upset by reading that a character in a book was fat.
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