Snoopy & Woodstock: Best Friends

The little boxed set Snoopy & Woodstock: Best Friends comes with a little rubbery Snoopy figurine, a littler-but-not-littler-to-scale Woodstock figurine, and a little paperback book, about 3 inches square. The book is a strip reprint… well, kind of. The strips reprinted are abridged editions, each brought down to two select panels printed in black-and-white on facing pages.

All in all, this thing feels overpriced at $8.95… would probably feel overpriced at half that. The figures are generic, unposable, and unimpressive. I cannot recommend this one.

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A different kind of coffee table book

If you have a coffee table, you should have a “coffee table book”, a large, heavily illustrated color volume that your guests can easily and casually flip through, (Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects is a good choice, of course.) But you …

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Review: Snoopy (Classic Cartoon Character Bios)

The Abdo Kids : Classic Cartoon Character Bios books are blatant stuff-to-fill-school-libraries material. Sturdy hardcovers, lots of pictures, 24 pages, little text – about 250 words. The Snoopy volume uses Snoopy images from just about anywhere: strips (appropriately licensed), animation, photos, The Peanuts Movie publicity materials. And the simple facts it …

Classic finds
A needle-ssly fine present

Being a) an adult and b) not a Christmasian, it makes sense that I’m not given much in the way of Christmas presents. This year’s haul was just two items, both given by Dr. Mrs. The AAUGH Blogger: a Terry’s Chocolate Orange (yum!), and this Peanuts embroidery book from Japan. …