Battling adaptations

Now that we can see the cover for the upcoming book It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: With Sound and Music, it’s clear that they’re doing something which I thought they might. Is this book the general market version of Hallmark’s recent sound button book of the same special? Well, yes  and no. It does take up the same conceptual space. However, it’s not using the same adaptation. For whatever reason, Running Press had provided Hallmark with a Great Pumpkin adaptation which was different from the one they’d released to the general market in recent hardcover releases (the Hallmark one had a classic flat animation style art, while the general market got highly modeled Tom Brannon art), and now each market has a sound button version of their own adaptation. Even the sound buttons themselves aren’t the same (or are at least in a different order.) So if you’re collecting all the versions, combinations, and permutations, you won’ t be able to get away with not getting this one, I suppose.

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More books a-comin’ and some site news

Got a couple new Peanuts books coming in the future, as well as catching up in news about the AAUGH Blog itself. Upcoming books “Please”, “Thank you”, sharing, and all that are coming your way in Snoopy’s Book of Manners, a board book by Patti Michaels and Robert Pope (based …

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It was a stormy Dark Knight…

Coming out in December is a facsimile edition of Detective Comics issue 500, the big thick issue-versary release from 1981. Detective Comics is a series that began in 1937, although it really picked up steam in 1939, when issue 27 introduced a little character called “The Batman”. Reaching issue 500 is an achievement …

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Offboarding

I can think of a number of times that Peanuts storybooks have been converted into board books, often with some shortening and simplification. And I can think of once or twice that the stories from board books have been included inside non-board anthologies of stories. But I can’t think of …