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Re:first children's edition

From: Jan Rychlík <jan.rychlik~at~seznam.cz>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:33:57 +0100 (CET)
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Dear Brian,

as to Czech Republic, this begun only in 1990s and without exception the books were translated from English.

But in 1870s and 1880s, there were already severely condensed editions of some Verne novels, eg. 2 volume novel in some 60-70 pages. But I wonder it is possible to consider them juvenile editions. They had appealing image covers, indeed, but otherwise no illustrations and the texts were as abridged as those published in newspapers. And since this was for the 1st time the respective Verne stories were available in Czech, the books were probably read by elder children (>10 years).

Then, in 1950s, some less abridged translations were illustrated in so a naive and infantile manner, that one could guess these were juvenile editions. But they appeared in series destined to high school youth!

Jan Rychlik
> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> Od: Brian Taves <btav~at~loc.gov>
> Předmět: first children's edition
> Datum: 09.2.2007 01:51:04
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Brian Taves
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