Be My Valentine books

There are two different new book adaptations of the animated special Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown out this year, both available for immediate shipping. I haven’t actually gotten my copy of the minibook adaptation yet, but I do have the kids valentine-shaped hardcover. It’s an interactive book: 10 sturdy cardboard pages with five lift-a-flaps, one of which is a pop-up. Frankly, as a quantity of entertainment for kids, that’s a little weak. But there’s nothing particularly wrong with it (well, except for the attempt to do some modeling on the color of Charlie Brown’s face, giving him a five-o’clock shadow

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