"I wonder if it's safe to assume the same holds true for all Walcz editions of Sutcliff."
It's likely true for Warrior Scarlet, Dawn Wind, and The Lantern Bearers, anyway; I just checked, and the UK printer is credited in the Walcz editions of all three books. Knight's Fee does not have the name of the UK printer on its copyright page of the Walcz edition; I don't know whether that signifies anything. Rider on a White Horse and Sword at Sunset, which were published in the US by Coward-McCann, both say on their copyright pages that they were manufactured in the US, so those are books that might have been altered when they were first published in the US.
I remember that the Mary Renault fan community went into a tizzy when they discovered that there were incredibly major differences between the UK and US editions of The Charioteer. The entire novel had been cut drastically. And Ursula K. Le Guin said in an essay that, at a certain point in the UK editing of the original Earthsea trilogy, she shrunk a long speech upon the advice of her UK editor. Children's novels are especially inclined to this treatment, since US editors assume that American children are incapable of looking up unfamiliar words in a dictionary. I remember reading an article in the Horn Book about how British children's novels are "translated" for American kids, and then groaning over the ludicrous changes that were introduced to the US editions of the Harry Potter books.
At least British children's novels are published in the US. Do you know, scarcely a single British children's TV program has ever been shown in the US?
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Date: 2022-09-26 04:27 pm (UTC)"I wonder if it's safe to assume the same holds true for all Walcz editions of Sutcliff."
It's likely true for Warrior Scarlet, Dawn Wind, and The Lantern Bearers, anyway; I just checked, and the UK printer is credited in the Walcz editions of all three books. Knight's Fee does not have the name of the UK printer on its copyright page of the Walcz edition; I don't know whether that signifies anything. Rider on a White Horse and Sword at Sunset, which were published in the US by Coward-McCann, both say on their copyright pages that they were manufactured in the US, so those are books that might have been altered when they were first published in the US.
I remember that the Mary Renault fan community went into a tizzy when they discovered that there were incredibly major differences between the UK and US editions of The Charioteer. The entire novel had been cut drastically. And Ursula K. Le Guin said in an essay that, at a certain point in the UK editing of the original Earthsea trilogy, she shrunk a long speech upon the advice of her UK editor. Children's novels are especially inclined to this treatment, since US editors assume that American children are incapable of looking up unfamiliar words in a dictionary. I remember reading an article in the Horn Book about how British children's novels are "translated" for American kids, and then groaning over the ludicrous changes that were introduced to the US editions of the Harry Potter books.
At least British children's novels are published in the US. Do you know, scarcely a single British children's TV program has ever been shown in the US?