Leather-bound Halloween

If you’ve been buying those fancy leather-clad edition, then you should know that there is now an Easton Press edition of Trick or Treat!: A Peanuts Halloween. Of course, it will set you back a mere $78.

Of course, the standard, leather-free edition is still available for a much lower price!

(And hey, if you want to confuse your trick-or-treaters, give ’em Big Hunk snack size bars. Are they big? Or are they snack size? And if the small size is a snack, what do they think a standard Big Hunk is, a meal? I’m soooo confused!)

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Charlie Brown, (at) All American?

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Something hatted, something hated

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