Children's versions?

[Jim Hohman]

No: HPFGUIDX 748

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Neil Ward wrote:.
> 
> 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'?
> 
> The very word "Bowdlerize" is derived from the name of an English 
editor,
> Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) who published an expurgated Shakespeare 
(i.e., with
> the naughty/offensive bits taken out).
> 
> Peg

OF COURSE!!! Peg, You just reminded me of the most famous book of 
adult material changed to a childrens version.  Charles and Mary 
Lamb's 'Tales From Shakespeare'.   

Jim