The Peanuts crew shows how to write right

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IMG_0787With the help of this Japanese writing guide, I could soon learn to write Japanese. Which would be really cool. But then I would have to get another book that teaches me how to read Japanese, or I’ll have no idea what I’ll have written.

The book is illustrated with a mix of Peanuts images and non-Peanuts images; pretty stuff, but it clashes.

This was purchased off of eBay, the leading purveyor of unlikely random stuff from around the globe.

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