I must apologize, dear readers. Here it is, the sixth day of the month, and I’ve yet to do a post about print adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas. But come, let me address that now!

My guide already had the 1977 book & record set issued by Charlie Brown Records as well as the 1977 record with read-along book released by The Charlie Brown Record Company, but it identified them as having the same print adaptation of the special. It was an assumption based on a small amount of evidence, but I should’ve been smarter than that.

After all, the Charlie Brown Records edition came with a little 45 RPM record, which for you youngsters of the CD era meant that the record was too short to hold the entire special. The Charlie Brown Record Company edition, on the other hand, was an LP (a Long Playing record), with plenty of room between its two sides to hold the entire special. So even though the LP version only has a 12 page booklet and the the single version has 24 pages, the much larger pages of the LP version include much more art and text than the smaller version, which is really an abridgment (to match the abridged soundtrack on the record.)

So this information has been folded into The AAUGH.com evergreen, ever growing guide to A Charlie Brown Christmas books. That’s just our way of doing our part to keep the Charlie Brown Christmas spirit alive, year-round (and thus, we never get to A Charlie Brown Boxing Day!)

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