Charlie Brown’s Japanese Christmas

I got a package from Amazon’s Japanese division, with seven Japanese Peanuts books. I’m not going to cover them all here at once… but I’m also not going to bury the lede.  I scored myself the Japanese edition of the pop-up book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas. With all my excessive Peanuts book collecting and my not-just-a-little-nuts obsession with the various book versions of A Charlie Brown Christmas, this is the first non-American or non-English-language edition I’ve gotten… because it’s the only one I know to exist. So this 2013 fills a very specific hole in my collection. It’s the same pop-up scenes as the 2010 American edition, which uses the art from an adaptation that first appeared in 2008.

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While the book’s text is in Japanese, most (but not all) of the words on the art remains in English.
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So am I a happy li’l Peanuts book accumulator! Absolutely! This is the best Christmas item I’ve ever gotten in May!

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