Changing faces/places/names | Kids books grow up
There’s some talk about the place of the changing faces, words and other bits in books - with some classics (including Blyton and Duncan’s I Know What You Did Last Summer) being modernised.
It’s not unusual for a cover to change per edition, regularly in some cases, but what about the content inside? How about the adapted picturebooks of Richard Scarry? Where pilots are no longer handsome and Indians no longer eat ice cream? (Click an image to enlarge)
Or one more… the changing face of John Marsden:
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LOL, and the hostess is no longer pretty.
Haha - and the Baggage Man is now a Handler…
Ha, I missed that one. I wonder how many covers like that one, have had to change?