Hallmark has released another book featuring their “itty-bittys” reworking of the Peanuts characters, this one with two stuffed Peanuts figures attached to it. While Charlie Brown and Snoopy are already represented in the itty-bittys stuffed line, of course, I believe that to get them in these particular costumes, you have to buy this book.

The story within It’s a Tree-Tumbling Christmas, Charlie Brown starts off with Charlie Brown baking a Christmas pie and Snoopy planning to eat the pie while it was cooling, and then Snoopy, in leaping toward the pie, knocks down the tree – which feels a bit more like a generic kid-and-dog storybook than like something that reflects these particular characters. The other kids and the Beagle Scouts are all wrangled in to help save the crisis caused by the wrecked tree.

As I’ve said before, placing the itty-bittys texture on the Peanuts characters does manage to keep more of the distinct nature of the characters than some other attempts. This is not the book I would use to introduce someone to Peanuts, but it does have its cute aspects… and if you need All The Figures, then here some are!

This book, written by Cat Hollyer and illustrated by Chris Green, is available at Hallmark stores or through their website.

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