I'll just add a few details to the different editions, since we've had at least one volume from at least three different printings of Kingdom Tales.
1. Our oldest edition had one colored picture per chapter, & they were cloth-bound with dust jackets. The pictures are very imaginative and apply to the chapter well.
2. The next edition we have is still available from Lamplighter. It is $25 for each volume, so $75 total.
These have those covers that are shiny with pictures - like modern hardcovers. The color & cover illustration are identical to the original dust jackets. Inside each volume, every chapter has the same colored picture as the previous edition (one per chapter), but then portions of that picture are also printed in black and white on a couple other pages of the chapter (small, close-up sections of the same picture, but in black & white). So there is still one picture per chapter, the same picture as in the original edition, but it is printed in a couple ways.
3. MFW's is the exact same wording, without pictures, but with discussion questions (with answers) added at the end of every chapter. Spiral binding, which is much easier for me to work with. Price is very good

[about $30 for all 3 books in 1 volume, vs. about $75 for 3 separate volumes]
Julie
Postby Julie in MN » Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:41 pm
Cyndi, the dragon chapter was one of my favorites, too <sniff, sniff> -- so applicable to my own soul...
Anyways, RB,
I need to correct something I said above because I like to be exactly correct when I say something out loud, and Scott at the office, bless his heart, has helped me be very exact on this.
When I said, "MFW's is the exact same wording," I need to be more correct. I should have said something more like, "MFW's is the same wording with only slight differences." These differences won't be noticed by most people, but I shouldn't have said "exact same." It's basically the same, just things like -
- MFW added the questions, of course
- over the 3 volumes there are three or so "MFW notes" suggesting parents preview the most dramatic chapters.
- MFW made very slight corrections/clarifications, without changing the meaning. For instance in the chapter ds and I just read, "Traffic Court," my Lamplighter book says "began for procession" and my MFW book says "began the procession" (which makes more sense to me).
- MFW very occasionally toned a few words down a tiny bit, again without changing meaning. The one I noticed was in the very first chapter:
MFW version: He loved fire, loved its power. Long ago he had decreed night to be day...
Lamplighter version: He loved fire, loved its power. He called it to himself and used it to cast spells. Long ago he had decreed night to be day...
Another reason MFW's version is excellent?!
Julie