Snoopy basics

Just added to the AAUGH.com Reference Library are four newly shipping board books:

The illustrations are chosen well. The manufacture is a bit problematic; the pages sometimes come stuck together and hard to separate, which was made worse by one book which for some reason had a page about twice as thick as the others, so there I am trying to separate what was really a single board. So if you’re giving one of these to a kid, open up every page before you hand it over. (Or just get the Kindle editions, which are available and cheaper.)

New releases
A pop-up shows up

Here Comes Charlie Brown!: A Peanuts Pop-up, Gene Kannenberg, Jr.’s adaptation of the very first Peanuts strip, is not the first Peanuts book to reprint only a single strip. There was at least one board book that did much the same thing. However, that board book was, at heart, a …

Classic finds
English Phrases to Comfort Your Heart

The next book in my Amazon Japan shipment falls into the adorable category of “Peanuts used to explain American culture”. English Phrases to Comfort Your Heart with Snoopy by Nobu Yamada falls into that category. It also falls into the category of “books which are meant to be destroyed”, as each …

New releases
Look! A mook!

Mooks – that is, items with magazine-like content but sold more like a book – are popular in Japan. Many of them come bundled with extra items, and there have been a fair number with Peanuts items. Most often these are bags – a handbag or a tote of some …