When I was in elementary school, my parents would get me abridged versions of great books from Walmart. They were little paperbacks with lots of illustrations. I loved many of them and read them over and over. Then when I got older, I read many of the originals.
I think that some good stories can be retold in many different ways. One telling will be better than another but even an abridged telling can preserve they key pieces and convey them to a different audience.
Edit: consider folk-tales. They don’t have a canonical version and so for example we can have Robin Hood in both Water Scott’s Ivanhoe and in the Disney movie with the foxes. Or Greek mythology, which can be enjoyed even if you’re not reading Hesiod.
When I was in elementary school, my parents would get me abridged versions of great books from Walmart. They were little paperbacks with lots of illustrations. I loved many of them and read them over and over. Then when I got older, I read many of the originals.
I think that some good stories can be retold in many different ways. One telling will be better than another but even an abridged telling can preserve they key pieces and convey them to a different audience.
Edit: consider folk-tales. They don’t have a canonical version and so for example we can have Robin Hood in both Water Scott’s Ivanhoe and in the Disney movie with the foxes. Or Greek mythology, which can be enjoyed even if you’re not reading Hesiod.