 For the 1963 reprint Garner also made several changes to the original text and by the late 1960s he came to reject "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" as "a fairly bad book".Although it fell out of critical approval it was adapted in the late 1970s as a musical that was staged in Manchester and Essex.In 2010 HarperCollins brought out a special 50th anniversary issue of the book, containing a new preface by Garner and praise from various other figures involved in children's literature, while 2011 saw BBC Radio 4 produce a radio adaptation.