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Re: first children's edition

From: Walter J Miller <wjm2~at~nyu.edu>
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:24:12 -0500
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Guys, it was always my understanding that the French themselves began to
publish special children's editions after the success of the original
"family" edition. It would be good to know when this practice was
initiated. It could account for some of the cut versions that found
their way into English as THE ADULT book. It would be no excuse for the
deception, of course. I vaguely remember that they used to be able
quickly to spot the difference between the original adult and later
children's editions by the illustrations. Any translator who issued a
children's original as an English adult version was still just as guilty
of deception as if he had made all the changes himself. Perhaps both
happened. The trick would be to establish exactly when Hetzel's
successors started to issue special kids' versions. Later than Mercier
Lewis and Kingston, I'm sure, but maybe not later than Evans, although
Evans himself admitted and rationalized many of his cuts (too long
desciptions of fish, etc). I'm vulnerable here, without sources, only
impressions and old memories. Cheers! Walter James Miller

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Taves <btav~at~loc.gov>
Date: Thursday, February 8, 2007 6:54 pm
Subject: first children's edition

>
> 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
> controversialpassages, 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,
> maybeas young as 6 - 8.
>
> In the US this seems largely a post WWII baby boom phenomenon,
> followingon 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.
>
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