The last Wendys cover, and the unreliability of elves

When my elf at Wendy’s told me that the last book would be called “Best Friends“, I guessed “the cover has Snoopy and Woodstock, right?” “No,” she assured me, “Snoopy and Charlie Brown”. Well… ha!

All three of them! So maybe this is finally the chronicling of the long-overlooked camaraderie between Charlie Brown and Woodstock!

Anyway,  the book is officially released today, but odds are it will be a few days until you see it in your local sandwich shop. If they have the sign up promoting Toys R Us toys in their Kid’s Meals, then they’ll probably have copies of this on  hand.

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