Meg Cabot title changes

In the comments to our Chick Lit Heroine Grudge Match featuring Suzannah Simon from Meg Cabot's Mediator series, Robin pointed out that the series' titles were different in the US. She's not wrong.

After the first book (called The Princess Diaries, natch), The Princess Diaries series has different titles too. In the US they're called things like Princess in the Spotlight and Princess in Training, while in the UK they run from Take Two to To the Nines (via Seventh Heaven).

(While I'm on the subject, I don't like the new UK covers (left). They're boring and they look too young for the content.)

But it's not just Meg's YA books that have been renamed, I noticed the other day that the third book in the Heather Wells series is called Big Boned in the US, but Size Doesn't Matter in the UK. It's all very curious...

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Keris

I don&#39t mind Big Boned, actually.

I don&#39t think the PD cover looks like an 11-15 cover though, Amy. I think it looks more 9-12 and I don&#39t think the PDs are suitable for that age. (We used to get complaints when I worked in Waterstone&#39s.)

I prefer the US titles too, except Sixsational. I love Sixsational! :)

Amy

I much prefer the title &#39Size Doesn&#39t Matter&#39. It makes the message very obvious, but I really, really don&#39t like &#39Big Boned&#39 - it&#39s horrible.

I do like the UK cover as well, although I prefer the US one. It&#39s pretty. I don&#39t think the cover is too young when you consider that, much as we adults enjoy reading them, the actual target audience *is* about 11-15.

I think the US titles are a lot better though. The UK ones are just....blah. All that Evanovich style naming books after their number in the series is all a bit boring and unoriginal really.

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