Great Pumpkin leaf globe and sticker book

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The It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Leaf Globe set is a little boxed gift with a snow-globe-like object and a book of stickers. It’s published by Running Press, who make some nice books but whose boxed gifty things I usually find underwhelming.

The good news is that the stickers themselves are pretty nice. They’re images taken from last year’s new book adaptation of Great Pumpkin, so they are quite rich and colorful. Each is about 2 3/4″ by 2 1/4″.

The bad news about the stickers? When they say “16 page sticker book” in the listings, they’re counting the blank back of each sticker. Yup, eight stickers. I guess “eight stickers” doesn’t seem impressive.

As for the leaf globe? Ummm… ugly. The scale is wrong (the Snoopy in the foreground is too small for the Charlie Brown and Snoopy in the background. The pumpkin doesn’t look like a pumpkin. Linus looks like a bald guy whose gotten scratched. And if I didn’t know the leaves were leaves, I’m not sure what I’d think they were. Admittedly, my photo of it isn’t the most flattering… but no, this is not a lovely piece.

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