Ken WhiteFeb 24, 2023
Sensible solution. https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/company-article/puffin-announces-the-roald-dahl-classic-collection-to-keep-authors-classic-texts-in-print
Puffin Announces The Roald Dahl Classic Collection to keep author’s classic texts in print

Puffin announces today the release of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, to keep the author’s classic texts in print. These seventeen titles will be published under the Penguin logo, as individual titles in paperback, and will be available later this year. The books will include archive material relevant to each of the stories.   The […]

Show threadJames Sprague
@Popehat Just bizarre insofar as the Puffin label was originally designated for children’s lit. So the kids get the original language and the adults get the watered down language.
Feb 24, 2023 at 5:21pmWeb
Show threadScott ReynoldsFeb 25, 2023
@JamesLHSprague It’s the other way round, I believe.
Show threadJames SpragueFeb 25, 2023

@scottintokyo Thanks. Memory ain’t what it used to be so I just checked with Wikipedia (that irrefutable source 😁) and this is what it says:

“Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.”