What IS the point of Junior Novelizations?

[Drtooth]

You want to know something? So did I half the time, harhar!

That's the only way they sucker kids into actually buying them. I did, you did, everyone did.

Actually... I had a junior novelization collection of episodes of The Tick... they kept half the funny dialogue in... but they also changed the Chairface Chippendale episode to be more like the comic book story... at least in one aspect.

You see, in the original comic version of that one, Chairface threw The Tick into a pit of alligators and man eating cows... and the gators were too full from eating the cows, leaving the good guys to escape. In the cartoon version, only alligators are in the pit.

 

[minor muppetz]

I don't see a problem with junior novelizations, though I figure the only point of them is to have another merchandise tie-in. But if parents want their kids to read more, then a junior novelization of a popular movie would be a good start.

In addition to the upcomming Muppets, Muppets From Space had a junior novelization as well. One thing that'd be interesting would be to read The Muppets novelization and see what characters are important enough to be mentioned by name in the book.

I've had a number of junior novelizations, including Casper and Batman Forever. I think I also had a Free Willie novelization.

 

[CensoredAlso]

This site has a few images from the novelisation of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Particularly amusing are some of the attempts to simplify the dialogue for the photo captions, lol:

Ferris: "Would you want to get married? I mean if I wasn't a fool."
Sloane (Mia Sara) : "Sure."
Ferris: "Today?"

Yeah...don't quite recall Ferris putting it that way, lol.

http://www.80s.com/saveferris/novel.html