I watched a Youtube video recently with like fifteen recommendations for different novelizations of the legends that gave a fair bit of detail and explanation for his rankings and recommendations. It was really interesting but it just made me want to read White even less and it also did not really provide any leads on anything particularly close to Malory that I want to pursue. Although I did make a mental note to read a couple of the things he mentioned that I hadn't heard of before.

I gather that in general the Golden Age of Storytelling - Victorian and Edwardian I guess? - retellings were pretty much all aimed at children and that overall these are mostly based on Malory, but he didn't recommend any of them and didn't really go into any detail about them. All of these would be in the public domain now and I found a couple of free downloads to check out, but I didn't get into them. The didactic pompous style of moral literature aimed at kids from back then, you know? Even though I loved the [color] fairy book collections as a kid. And I suppose the fact that they were aimed at children was already not likely to appeal to me.