Adult vs. Child Editions

[tigerpatronus]

No: HPFGUIDX 131027

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Donna" <donnawonna at w...> wrote:
> Excuse me for sounding so ignorant but until I joined this group I 
was not
> aware there were two editions of the Harry Potter books.  What is the
> difference between the two?  How do I know which edition I have?  
I'm in the
> US.
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> Donna

Hi Donna, 

We Yanks only get one edition. (Well, two, hardback and paperback, but 
that's later.) The lucky Brits get a choice of covers so they don't 
look like they're reading a little kids' book. It's all just cover 
design, maybe some text formatting inside the book. 

But the poor Brits don't get the nifty artwork by Mary GrandPre. 
That's just for us. 

And, of course, in the Brit kids' book and the puritanical US edition, 
they delete all references to the hot snogging between Draco and 
Hermione that's been going on in all 5 books so far. 

TK -- TigerPatronus