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