Three more items were added to the AAUGH.com Reference Library today, none of them at all large, but still, the bookshelves are filled and droopy.

The more important one to me is one I’ve been seeking for years. It’s Your Town, Charlie Brown is an auction catalog/souvenir book for the statues of Charlie Brown that appeared around Santa Rosa, California in the summer of 2005. As with all of these statue series, many of the repainted-and-added-to figures show Charlie Brown as a practitioner of various careers and a participant in various hobbies, while others use the figure simply as an unusually-shaped canvas. The one that most caught my eye made me think “hey, the way that this artist has repainted the fact and covered it with blobs of paint, it was clearly inspired by Tom Everhart’s fine art Peanuts paintings… and then I noticed that the artist for this one was actually Everhart himself, so I was sort of wrong.

At the dollar-items section at the front of Target I found these two packs, each with a coloring book, four crayons, and a small sheet of stickers.

One thing that I found interesting is that the Belle set isn’t branded “Peanuts”, but with a “Snoopy & Belle” brand that I haven’t seen before. But then, I don’t do much shopping in some of the realms that are more likely to need such a brand (clothing, stuffed animals). The “Peanuts” logo on the other one is an example that they’ve shifted away from the logo with the laughing Snoopy. Elsewhere, I’ve seen some recent printings of some Peanuts coloring books that had previously had the laughing Snoopy logo, but now have this one. I admit that I prefer this one.

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