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Category Archives: Updating Blyton’s Books
Roald Dahl vs the Sensitivity Readers
Enid Blyton’s books have been being updated for decades now, and while there is often complaints amongst the fans it is generally a muttering on forums and in Facebook groups. After all, it has been happening for years and it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Controversy, Roald Dahl, Updated Text, Updates
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The Naughtiest Girl in the School: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? Part 6
There are only four chapters left so this should be the final part! Part one looked at chapters 1-4, part 2 chapters 5-8 here, part 3 chapters 9-12, part 4 chapters 13-16 and part 5 was chapters 17-20. I am … Continue reading
The Naughtiest Girl in the School: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? Part 5
Part one looked at chapters 1-4, part 2 chapters 5-8 here, part 3 chapters 9-12 and part 4 was chapters 13-16. I am comparing the 1944 5th reprint by George Newnes (which should be more or less identical to the … Continue reading
The Naughtiest Girl in the School: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? Part 4
You can find part one, chapters 1-4, here, part two with chapters 5-8 here and part 3 which has chapters 9-12 here. I am comparing the 1944 5th reprint by George Newnes (which should be more or less identical to … Continue reading
The Naughtiest Girl in the School: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? Part 3
You can find part one, chapters 1-4, here, and part two with chapters 5-8 here. I am comparing the 1944 5th reprint by George Newnes (which should be more or less identical to the true first edition) to a 2012 … Continue reading
The Naughtiest Girl in the School: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? Part 2
You can find part one, chapters 1-4, here. I am comparing the 1944 5th reprint by George Newnes (which should be more or less identical to the true first edition) to a 2012 edition by Hodder and Stoughton. CHAPTER V … Continue reading
The Naughtiest Girl in the School: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition?
It has been more than two years since I’ve done a text comparison (I blame Brodie!) but I was in a branch library the other week and spotted a recent paperback of The Naughtiest Girl in the School. I thought … Continue reading
A prize for the most updated of Enid Blyton’s text
As you will probably know I have written several series of posts on the updatings to Blyton’s texts, looking at the first book of a series (and a few Noddys). I would now like to award a (dubious) prize to … Continue reading
The Saucy Jane Family: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 4
Last time we saw quite a bit of text cut out of one chapter plus some other more minor changes, so let’s see what we get this time. I am comparing the first edition (Lutterworth Press, 1947) to an omnibus … Continue reading
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Tagged The Caravan Family, The Saucy Jane Family, Updated Text
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The Saucy Jane Family: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 3
So far this book seems to have had minimal editing, which is a pleasant surprise. Shall we see if that continues? I am comparing the first edition (Lutterworth Press, 1947) to an omnibus edition containing four of the six books … Continue reading
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Tagged The Caravan Family, The Saucy Jane Family, Updated Text
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The Saucy Jane Family: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 2
There weren’t too many changes made in the first chapters, but then again the chapters are pretty short! I am comparing the first edition (Lutterworth Press, 1947) to an omnibus edition containing four of the six books (Egmont, 2014). CHAPTER … Continue reading
The Saucy Jane Family: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition?
I’ve been looking for a new book to compare lately – as it has been a weekly scramble to come up with an idea otherwise – and then this rather fell into my lap. Or fell into my Whatsapp conversation, … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part nine
And so we have reached the final part! This one has taken me about 7 months to do. Previous parts can be seen here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. As before my own copy is a Methuen from 1957 – the 12th reprint/impression of the original. The … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 8
This should be the second-last part, so we are nearly there! It won’t be long until we have a final total. Previous parts can be seen here, here, here, here, here, here and here. As always my own copy is a Methuen from 1957 – a 12th reprint/impression of … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 7
I thought this would be a fine way to break up the Christmas posts a bit (but don’t worry there will be more of those!) Previous parts can be seen here, here, here, here, here and here. As always my own copy is a Methuen from 1957 – … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 6
Another month, another instalment! Hopefully I will get this finished within the next three months then. Previous parts can be seen here, here, here, here and here. As always my own copy is a Methuen from 1957 – a 12th reprint/impression of the original. The new version is … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 5
I’m keeping up with my resolution to do at least one of these a month (so far!). Previous instalments can be seen here, here, here and here. As always my own copy is a Methuen from 1957 – a 12th reprint/impression of the original. The new … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 4
I’m determined to keep coming back to this every third week or so, purely so that it doesn’t take me a whole year to get through it! The other parts are here, here and here. As always my own copy is a Methuen from … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 3
It has only been two weeks since the last instalment but I would like to try to get through this book before the end of the year! The first parts can be seen here and here. As before my personal copy is … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 2
This week I’m back with the Five Find-Outers to see what else has changed. The first post can be seen here. To remind you – my personal copy is a Methuen from 1957 – the 12th reprint/impression of the original edition. The new … Continue reading
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