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first children's edition

From: Brian Taves <btav~at~loc.gov>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:54:00 -0500 (EST)
To: jvforum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

Reading an article on another creator of children's entertainment led me
to wonder, when was the first children's edition of Verne, in what
country? By children's edition I don't just mean the standard condensing,
cutting a third of the text, ommission of potentially controversial
passages, or placement in a juvenile journal such as Boys Own, but rather
a book rewritten completely, probably laden with illustrations, to
deliberately appeal solely to an audience of, say, under 10 years, maybe
as young as 6 - 8.

In the US this seems largely a post WWII baby boom phenomenon, following
on Verne in comic books, but the situation may have been different, and
earlier, elsewhere.


Brian Taves
Motion Picture/Broadcasting/Recorded Sound Division
Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue, S.E. Washington, D.C. 20540-4692
Telephone: 202-707-9930; 202-707-2371 (fax)
Email: btav~at~loc.gov


Disclaimer--All opinions expressed are my own.
Received on Fri 09 Feb 2007 - 02:28:58 IST

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