Okay, you regular readers know that my interest is Peanuts books, foreign as well as domestic. And you know that my madness is book editions of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Up until now, the “foreign” part of my interest had not collided with the madness. As far as I could tell, there had been no non-English book adaptations of that TV special… not surprising, perhaps, because as beloved as Peanuts is in other lands, that special reflects a very American sense of Christmas.

Then today, I found this listing. on the Japanese branch of Amazon. It’s a 2011 translation of the 2010 pop-up edition, which makes sense; it’s of interest not because it’s the Christmas special, but because it’s a pop-up. Unfortunately, because I discovered it years after it was printed, it is now out of print. Now, I ordered from Amazon Japan long in the past, but their high international shipping price discouraged me from placing other orders since, despite some interesting books… but for this, I would’ve ordered a copy. As a used book, however, it is only available through Amazon’s third-party sellers… and apparently, they don’t ship overseas. So now, I either have to hire a reshipper, or find some other route for ordering a book whose title I can’t type.

Now I’ve got to figure out whether my maniacal guide to book versions of A Charlie Brown Christmas should include foreign ones. (Sadly, the answer is probably “yes”.)

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