A Charlie Brown Christmas airing

Tonight, at the start of ABC primetime in the U.S.

Meanwhile, I’ve added a couple editions to the A Charlie Brown Christmas book guide – just variant formats of the original Dale Hale adaptation. And I think there’s one more of those to come. (I’m kind of surprised that there hasn’t been a pop-up edition. It seems a natural; the Snoopy’s decorated dog house, the dance scene, Linus alone on stage. Lots of good pop-ups to be had.

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