Snoopy basics

Just added to the AAUGH.com Reference Library are four newly shipping board books:

The illustrations are chosen well. The manufacture is a bit problematic; the pages sometimes come stuck together and hard to separate, which was made worse by one book which for some reason had a page about twice as thick as the others, so there I am trying to separate what was really a single board. So if you’re giving one of these to a kid, open up every page before you hand it over. (Or just get the Kindle editions, which are available and cheaper.)

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Pinkwashing Lucy

Just added to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is this volume that my daughter and wife (two separate people, let me be clear) found at Kinokuniya, a chain selling Japanese books at eighteen US locations. This paperback, which bears no English title as some Japanese books do, has a title that …

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“It’s Only a Game” goes sane

As some of you know, the color collection of Schulz’s late-1950s newspaper feature It’s Only a Game that I published in 2013 is a bit weird — namely, the book’s spine is not on the left, as with a normal English book. No, the spine is on the top, and …

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Epistles to the Great Pumpkin

The board book Letters to the Great Pumpkin is fairly straightforward on its goals. Linus decides that a letter-writing campaign is just the thing to get that legendary gourd to appear in his pumpkin patch, and various Peanuts characters each write a letter to the Great Pumpkin that reflects their personality …