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December 23: A Very Peanuts Christmas

Some books are great, but some books are more than a book, and such is the case with A Very Peanuts Christmasit’s a book, but it’s also a pillow! More of a decorative throw item than something you’re going to use to sleep on, but it is nice and fluffy and huggable.

And on the inside? It’s a strip collection. Not a lot of pages (a mere ten), but nice big fabric ones that you lay on the floor and read with your kids. A fine, fun item.

I've certainly bought normal books with less strip content in them.

 

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A Charlie Brown [SPOILER WARNING] Christmas

So I planned to do a big unboxing of my copy of the newly-released A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Official Advent Calendar. And I actually filmed it all… well, tried to, but in addition to my lack of cinematographic skills, it turns out my cameraphone was stopping and restarting the video …

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The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, the Big Day

My choice of what the finest non-adaptation-of-A-Charlie-Brown-Christmas Peanuts Christmas book wasn’t a struggle. The Joy of a Peanuts Christmas is quite simply a lovely book of the core of Peanuts. It’s a strip collection, collecting Christmas-themed strips. Now, that would describe a lot of the books on this list, but …

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The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 1 day to go

The title of Christmas is Together-Time may be a mite awkward, but what it is isn’t awkward at all. What it is is pure, book-original Schulz, with his reflections on Christmas and what it is. And lest you think that a Christmas giftbook is apt to be pure saccharine, we …