The AAUGH Blogger is happy, and if the AAUGH Blogger is happy, odds are good that there’s a new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas. And there is!

This isn’t a new-from-the-ground-up edition, however. It’s a version of the sound-button book that was a Hallmark exclusive last year.

But it is, most certainly a new edition. Most notably, it’s a different size than the Hallmark version, an inch and a half larger in weight and width (but not, of course, thickness.)

But beyond this… it’s the happy edition. The Hallmark edition’s cover was just Charlie Brown with the pathetic little tree, in all its original stark insufficiency. The new version has Charlie Brown and the whole crowd (including the anachronistically-added Peppermint Patty and Marcie… although Franklin doesn’t get injected) celebrating the tree after the latest episode Extreme Makeover: Tree Edition. And where the frontispiece image on the Hallmark version was CB kneeling mournfully at the unadorned tree, the new edition has a gleeful round-headed kid carrying the tree.

This is probably the final new version of A Charlie Brown Christmas in book form for this year. This, and the Hallmark recordable book edition, will have to get us through until next holiday season (by which I mean next-drug store gear-up into Halloween, which is when these things usually appear.) Of course, I’ve been wrong on such things before. There may be another edition just gearing up to learp out at me when I least expect it.

However, if this is not enough for you, maybe it’s time for you to go visit the AAUGH.com evergreen guide to book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas.

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