Talk:Janet and John

Correction to the above

91.135.6.182, a one-time editor, made uncited entries upon 08:18, 16 April 2009 and 08:22, 16 April 2009 — which I have archived below. Someone with better knowledge and citations ought to edit this back into the main body, if they are accurate. WurmWoode^T 05:50, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Correction to the above: "Alice and Jerry" was written by Mabel O'Donnell and published in the USA by Row Peterson. John Mackenzie Wood of James Nisbet & Co negotiated the use of the illustrations for a British reading scheme, "Janet and John", and the British text was written by Rona Munro, a New Zealand teacher who had settled in England.

And:

Correction to the above: StarKids bought the "Janet and John" copyright from James Nisbet, and created their own material to use the names Janet and John. The daughters of Rona Munro had nothing to do with the StarKids material.

• The Alice and Jerry claim above can be referenced:

Title: Up the Garden Path: Janet and John Revisited

Author: Anne Else

In: A Book in the Hand: Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand

Publication details: Auckland University Press, 2000, Wellington

Reproduced at New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

By the time they reached New Zealand Janet and John had a complex genealogy. They had started out in the United States in 1936 as Alice and Jerry.9 In 1949 two women, Rona Munro and Mabel O'Donnell (Mabel came originally from New Zealand) revamped them for the English publisher John Nisbet and Co. Although some of the illustrations still showed their American origins, most had been thoroughly anglicised. The version specially published for New Zealand by Nisbet that same year had seven books instead of four

Apparently Else relied on Hugh Price School Textbooks published in New Zealand to 1960 (Palmerston North, New Zealand: Dunmore Press/Gondwanaland Press, 1992), 244 pp. ISBN 0864691459. Kiore (talk) 10:00, 21 November 2010 (UTC)