When I first saw the cover to Fröhliche Weihnachten, I got my hopes up. After all, I’ve been hoping to find a foreign book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas for years now; I know that the special depicts a particularly American sensibility for the holiday, but over all these decades and all these different US book editions, there must’ve been some non-US edition, right? And here was a book with not just “Charlie Brown” and “Christmas” imagery on it, but very specifically A Charlie Brown Christmas imagery.

But, alas, it was not to be… but it’s still quite a nice little book. This is a German collection of Christmas-themed strips. If you quickly check the book, it looks like it has 100 pages of strips, but that’s not quite right; it has 100 strips. Instead of page numbers, it has strip numbers in the corner of the page. Dailies are reprinted 1 per page, but Sundays are doled out across multiple pages, and there’s an occasional page with just a spot illustration, with no number.  The reproduction is sharp, although the text, which is mostly computer set, is at a slightly smaller font size than would have been optimal to make good use of the word balloon space.

So if you’d like a Peanuts book in German, here you go. I ordered my copy via The Book Depository, a British online shop that carries some books from other counties, and which has free shipping to the US.

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