In the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (AKA: Willi Wonka) the Oompa Lumpas were pygmies from Africa... http://www.borg.com/~superman/Facts.html (Go down to 11) There are a whole lot of banned books. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html Look for the books you remember reading. The ones that you feel are important. Bet you find a couple. bob On Tuesday, May 15, 2001, at 05:16 PM, Luther, Ron wrote: > Sometimes the differences can be quite startling ... the original Dr. > Doolittle books would probably be banned in schools today for containing > certain racial slurs! I know I was pretty startled when I came across > it in > a first edition. -- bob davis bobd at members.evolt.org