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Speaking of picture book nostaligia and memories...
So we all know that older picture books are sometimes reprinted with a different illustrator. It obviously doesn't happen with authors who are also well known for their illustrations and do their own illustrations (like Tomie de Paolo, Eric Carle, Virginia Lee Burton, or Patricia Polacco) or where the illustrations are the most famous part, but with those who are really just authors and not illustrators (like Margaret Wise Brown or Alvin Tresselt) the newer editions of oop print books sometimes have different illustrators. Sometimes it's nuetral but sometimes it is just such a disappointment. And some I like both editions for different reasons. Trying to think if there is a newer version I actually like more than the orignal...thinking, thinking...
I was thinking about this because I just came across again the Margaret Wise Brown story - 
illustrated by Barbara Cooney.
The newer edition is illustrated by Jim Lamarche.
It's fine and he has nice illustrations but the feel of the story is just so different from the Cooney edition even though the words are the same. Which is strange but so accurate because picture books are all about the pictures, too.  I prefer the Cooney version so much more. Maybe I'm just nostalgic. They've actually done this to several of the Wise Brown/Cooney books. Seems like the main pairing I am finding and objecting to. I don't know why they don't bring them back with Cooney's art - it's so lovely (but not modern enough I guess  )
Then there are the Little House paperbacks without Garth Williams illustrations. That didn't go over very well 
Can you imagine Munro Leaf's Ferdinand not illustrated by Robert Lawson or Eve Titus' Anatole not illustrated by Paul Galdone? - even if it were a favorite current illustrator of mine like Ted Lewin or E.B. Lewis I don't think I could handle it...
It would totally change the book.
What books have you noticed this happening to. Have you liked original editions/illustrators better? Any you prefer the newer edition/illustrations of? Just curious...
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Oh my, this is one of my biggest pet peeves!
Two others come immediately to mind, but I keep running across examples of this.
Daughters of St. Paul keep revamping their books, rewriting some, but mainly changing illustrations. These were not famous illustrators, but I don't like the idea that we need to "update" illustrations.
Another Margaret Wise Brown book, Christmas in the Barn
Original edition, Barbara Cooney
New edition, Diane Goode
I love the classic If Jesus Came to My House by Joan Gale Thomas. The 1955 edition was written and illustrated by her.
If Jesus Came to My house this is the updated illustration version, all color. by Lori Mcelrath-eslick.
There seems to be an idea that a child must have everything spelled out in the pictures, all color, all detail and more modern looking. B&W seems to be so passe, to my utter sorrow.
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Yes, they do this to Margaret Wise Brown and Barbara Cooney on a regular basis, don't they? Thanks for the other example. Doesn't seem to happen to the male authors as much - they seem to more often be author illustrators anyway. Though your example is one of an author/illustrator who they did that to.
You know what might be interesting is to give two versions of the same story to a child who had never read it and see if they have a preference. We may be surprised if style preference is changing because of the other newer works children are seeing. In general now illustrations seem to be either more realistic (the ones I am attracted to like Lewin, Lewis, etc.) or very cartoony/comic like. DO you think that publishers think children need to see more realistic (photo-like) illustrations to "relate"? Hmmm....
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I'm blanking out on some of the other examples. We have done some side by side. And not exactly in the same category, but books that have the same song or words, with different illustrators we read in comparison.
New doesn't always mean better to the boys.
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I'll have to think of some examples too. The Cooney/Brown ones that you mentioned came immediately to mind when I saw the title of this post. I much prefer the Cooney illustrations for both of those books (though we actually do own the Diane Goode version of the latter--my husband prefers that one).
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Need I say more?
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Oy. 
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Oh, Theresa - YES! Perfect example!
"Disneyfication" of literature is a WHOLE different topic on its own...
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Says it all 
Great topic Mary, your first book I haven't seen before but Cooney's pictures instantly appealed to me. I'll have to think on this some more. Certainly the Disney pictures of books come to mind as 
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JennGM wrote:
And not exactly in the same category, but books that have the same song or words, with different illustrators we read in comparison.
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We've also done numerous comparisons using different illustrated versions of a particular fairy tale, poem, fable, etc. I really enjoy that. Those stories are so universal and retold through generations. Since they aren't associated with a particular illustrator per se, it's fun to look at how different illustrators "interpret" the work and make it come alive.
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