Laura Ingalls Wilder Books

Subject: Laura Ingalls Wilder Books Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:58 pm

Which books do you Preferre? The ones with the Orignal Pictuers or the Ones that made real?
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I Like the Old Pictuers Better

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I wouldn't thank you for the new editions. The illustrations by Garth Williams are missing and to me they help tell the story. They are a HUGE disappointment!!

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Subject: Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder Books Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:06 pm

Ditto... I like the old editions too.

Subject: Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder Books Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:35 pm

:agree: The old ones are are so much more "nice" to look at. To me those are the spirit of the Little House books

Subject: Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder Books Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:07 pm

I think both covers are really nice. The one's with the actual people really look like MSA and MG!

Beckie

LETS GO PENS!

Subject: Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder Books Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:29 pm

Yes they do... I thought it was them the first time I saw them.. but I think that´s what I don´t like about it... It´s like the books are eventually based on the tv series and not the other way around...

Subject: Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder Books Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:14 pm

Yeah very true.

Beckie

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Subject: Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder Books Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:10 pm

Same here. I 'd rather like the old ones.

Vanesa.

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Oh, yes! The old ones for sure!
They've been there since I was a girl!

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I rather the old ones. To me, they've become parts of the stories.

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Subject: Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder Books Sun Sep 09, 2007 1:15 pm

I like the older version better. I think that the covers to the new editions are pretty, but I miss Garth's illustrations!

Subject: Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder Books Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:42 pm

:agree:

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Call me old fashioned, but I picked the old ones.
I'm pretty sure that some day, when the new edition will be forgotten for a long time, the illustrations by Garth Williams will still becharm (not only) the children. They are just timeless.

Subject: Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder Books Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:23 am

The old one's

Subject: Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder Books Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:36 am

The old ones are beautiful. I prefer Garth's work.

Guest

the old ones, they did the same anne of green gables!

Guest

I love Garth's drawings.

Subject: Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder Books Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:51 pm

I'm quite a classical person too, so, Garth Williams drawings are wonderful for me.

Anyone knows if he is around, yet? I know his is a very elderly man and that he was very ill some two years ago...Is he alive?

Vanesa.

Subject: Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder Books Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:14 am

Vanesa wrote:: I'm quite a classical person too, so, Garth Williams drawings are wonderful for me.

Anyone knows if he is around, yet? I know his is a very elderly man and that he was very ill some two years ago...Is he alive?

Vanesa.

Vanesa, here is a biography on Garth Williams....unfortunately, he died back in 1996.

GARTH WILLIAMS

CANCER FREE!!! April 9, 1998-April 9, 2025-I AM A SURVIVOR!!!

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Wow - I didn't realize that it's been so long since he passed away! Time goes so quickly!

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Wonder if we contacted Harper Collins, if they would put the illustrations back into the new versions?

Guest

Probably not. I guess they were trying to appeal to new readers with the newer pictures.

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I read that you can get the Garth Williams illustrations in some newer editions - but that it costs more. (I think it was a version that had four books in one volume) That was on a blog in England somewhere . . . .so, I don't know if it's true here in the States or not. But how rotten is that!

Guest

That might be the set I have, Savannah. I paid like close to 50 bucks for it.

Subject: Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder Books Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:38 pm

Rhonda wrote:

Vanesa wrote:: I'm quite a classical person too, so, Garth Williams drawings are wonderful for me.

Anyone knows if he is around, yet? I know his is a very elderly man and that he was very ill some two years ago...Is he alive?

Vanesa.

Vanesa, here is a biography on Garth Williams....unfortunately, he died back in 1996.

GARTH WILLIAMS

Thank you, Rhonda! I didn't have the link. It seems that I was VEEEERYYY back in the news. Hahaha. Poor guy had left us longtime ago. Blue

But he lived a long, interesting life. And he will be always remembered. And when someone is remembered the way he is, he will never die among us.

Vanesa. :cabn:

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