Little Golden Books should be a piblisher's series?
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1al.vick
Seems like https://www.librarything.com/series/A%252BLittle%252BGolden%252BBook should be a publisher's series not a regular series?
2r.orrison
Are all editions of Little Golden Books part of the series? If so, then it's a normal Series.
A publisher series is only for when a particular publisher publishes a series of books that are also published by other publishers.
E.g. "Penguin Classics" is a publisher series, "For Dummies" is a regular series.
I'm pretty confident that Little Golden Books are a regular series.
A publisher series is only for when a particular publisher publishes a series of books that are also published by other publishers.
E.g. "Penguin Classics" is a publisher series, "For Dummies" is a regular series.
I'm pretty confident that Little Golden Books are a regular series.
3MarthaJeanne
I rather doubt that those books have been published elsewhere.
4lilithcat
>3 MarthaJeanne:
It seems very unlikely, with the possible exception of "Ali Baba" and "Bible Stories from the Old Testament". But even there, I expect that those are so cut down that they constitute entirely separate works.
It seems very unlikely, with the possible exception of "Ali Baba" and "Bible Stories from the Old Testament". But even there, I expect that those are so cut down that they constitute entirely separate works.
6lorax
The terminology is super confusing in cases like this, but everyone here other than the OP is correct that this is a regular Series. (Warning: this is long, and mostly I just wrote it all out to have something to link to when this comes up again.)
It's a little less confusing if you understand the history of Publisher Series.
In the beginning, there were Series. (Well, in the beginning there weren't even those, but that's not relevant. In the beginning there were hydrogen and helium, but we'll start when LT introduced Series.) This was intended for things like Lord of the Rings, mostly; books clearly associated with each other, where a title was obviously either in the series or not. Then people started wanting to use it for things like Penguin Classics, where someone might want to collect the set, see which they had, and so forth, but whether or not something was in the series wasn't intrinsic to the title. So something like Moby Dick would mean people had all sorts of these "edition series" show up on their Series lists, because it had been in lots of these sorts of things. Members would delete these non-Series when they found them, others would re-create them, and nobody was happy with the situation.
So LT created "Publisher Series" - series created by a publisher, where the series is at the edition level (a concept that unfortunately doesn't really exist on LT, though it does intuitively) and not all copies of a book are part of the series. (Every copy of "The Fellowship of the Ring" is part of "Lord of the Rings", so that's a Series; not every copy of "Moby Dick" is part of "Penguin Classics", so that's a Publisher Series. This gets confusing when there's a Series that has only ever been published by, and is strongly associated with, a publisher, something like the Little Golden Books you mention, or like the Dummies books. People not familiar with the esoterica of LT history, going only on the names (and not reading the clarification text), would naturally assume they're Publisher Series - they're Series! from a Publisher! - but they aren't.
Too late to change the name to Edition Series, but that would have been a lot clearer.
It's a little less confusing if you understand the history of Publisher Series.
In the beginning, there were Series. (Well, in the beginning there weren't even those, but that's not relevant. In the beginning there were hydrogen and helium, but we'll start when LT introduced Series.) This was intended for things like Lord of the Rings, mostly; books clearly associated with each other, where a title was obviously either in the series or not. Then people started wanting to use it for things like Penguin Classics, where someone might want to collect the set, see which they had, and so forth, but whether or not something was in the series wasn't intrinsic to the title. So something like Moby Dick would mean people had all sorts of these "edition series" show up on their Series lists, because it had been in lots of these sorts of things. Members would delete these non-Series when they found them, others would re-create them, and nobody was happy with the situation.
So LT created "Publisher Series" - series created by a publisher, where the series is at the edition level (a concept that unfortunately doesn't really exist on LT, though it does intuitively) and not all copies of a book are part of the series. (Every copy of "The Fellowship of the Ring" is part of "Lord of the Rings", so that's a Series; not every copy of "Moby Dick" is part of "Penguin Classics", so that's a Publisher Series. This gets confusing when there's a Series that has only ever been published by, and is strongly associated with, a publisher, something like the Little Golden Books you mention, or like the Dummies books. People not familiar with the esoterica of LT history, going only on the names (and not reading the clarification text), would naturally assume they're Publisher Series - they're Series! from a Publisher! - but they aren't.
Too late to change the name to Edition Series, but that would have been a lot clearer.
7abbottthomas
>6 lorax: Thank you for that - worth a star!
9al.vick
of my 77 or so Little Golden Books, this list currently has only 4. There is a publisher's series already that is much more complete.
10Collectorator
Dit lid is geschorst van de site.
12al.vick
I did add things to the publisher's series, but it was a while ago. Before the regular series appeared. Back when I thought that was where this series belonged. I haven't touched anything
since the regular series was created. And I won't touch anything.
since the regular series was created. And I won't touch anything.
13Collectorator
Dit lid is geschorst van de site.
14lquilter
There are definitely other editions of books published in the Little Golden Books series.
15Keeline
I can think of examples of Little Golden Book stories which were published in other forms. The Kitten Who Thought He Was a Mouse is one such example. It was published in a few formats other than the conventional Little Golden Book form. It began life as a story in a children's magazine with different illustrations.
Some titles were offered in other Golden Book formats, such as Big Golden Books.
James
Some titles were offered in other Golden Book formats, such as Big Golden Books.
James
