Books from around the world

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Books from around the world
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6024] Re: Books from around the world
Date: 8/7/00 5:21 pm  (ET)

> The back cover of the non-adult UK paperback Philosopher's Stone has
changed since it was first published. My daughter's copy (bought within
the first few weeks of publication in paperback) depicts the fellow
shown in the Photos section - Who is this guy? When my daughter bought
me my own copy for my birthday earlier this year the picture had been
changed for one more recognisably Dumbledore - don't you get fed up with
llustrators who have not read the book?

We had a big discussion about those two pictures a while back (Dumbledore
doesn't DRESS like the replacement guy with Dumbledore's head) and
someone, I think it was babyNick, actually asked the publisher and was
told that the first picture was supposed to be just a generic wizard,
but it caused so much confusion that they changed it to a picture of
Dumbledore.

I bought Tim the audiocassettes (he listens to books on audiocassette
in the car) of all four books so he could learn what it is that I am
always talking about and he is in CoS just where Fudge comes to take
poor Hagrid away to Azkaban. There is a description there of Fudge's
clothing (pinstripe suit, scarlet tie, long black coat, purple pointy
boots, lime green bowler hat) that caused Tim to say: The guy on the
back cover is Fudge!!