Children's versions?

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 718

All our talk about darkening and more adult themes in the Harry Potter
books, plus the New York Times' daft decision to put the books on the
children's bestseller list, makes me wonder whether there will be moves to
release children's versions of the future HP books. I'm sure this must have
been done before, but can anyone think of an example of a book or series in
which the adult-level content was cut or changed in order to provide a
'children's version'? I think there will be considerable pressure on the
publishers to do something like this, having created such a huge demand
among younger readers, but knowing that the content may be increasingly
adult in flavour.  It's clear that JKR plans to write the books she planned
to write and would not be swayed to tone them down.

I hope this hasn't been raised already - I haven't quite read all the posts
from the last week. 

Neil



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