I'm not familiar, but my niece is, and she said there are enough changes that you probably don't want to mix and match new with old, choose one and go with that. (
It so happens I have the first book of the earlier edition sitting on my reader, I picked it up on special a long while ago. I'd been thinking about reading it soon but now feel ambivalent ... maybe I'll wait for the new versions to come on special.)
ABC News in Australia published
this article recently that may or may not be of interest to you.