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December 8: Merry Christmas, Sweetie! Woof, Woof, Woof!

This 32 page booklet for 2004 is 2.75 inches square, with Christmas-themed Peanuts strips reprinted in color, plus Christmas-oriented quotes. It came as part of a boxed gift set, a stocking stuffer of sorts. It gets some love from me despite being such a small item because of the title, which is the most unlikely piece of spoken dialog that Schulz ever put into Snoopy’s mouth: “Merry Christmas, Sweetie! Woof, Woof, Woof!”

 

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