A Charlie Brown Christmas in its original black and white

New releases

I did a little unboxing of the A Charlie Brown Christmas Coloring Kit, which is the third new print edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas that I’ve covered this year. (Email blog subscribers can see the video here.)

What this video shows, if you pay attention, is:

  1. I really need to clean my cell phone camera lens and get a proper tripod for these efforts.
  2. While this is clearly a new edition, it’s not a new adaptation. Rather, this is an uncolored version of the same Tom Brannon-illustrated adaptation that has been put into various editions repeatedly for years now. To be specific, it uses the recent variant of that adaptation, which does away with Peppermint Patty and Marcie from the story (appropriately, as they were not in the TV special that’s being adapted.)

If you view it as a coloring book, $9.95 is a steep price for 23 small images to color (the box boasts “46 cards”, but of course half of them carry the text) and some stubby pencils. On the other hand, it is a nice physical object to stuff in a stocking.

 

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