After-Rats

So Yaolee Chen has followed up her Chinese book of Peanuts related text, Rats! (reviewed here) with Stories of Charlie, which appears to be another collection of Peanuts stories in prose, in Chinese. This is being published in the US by a Taiwanese woman living in the US; I’m dubious that it is properly licensed.

What’s in it? Well, the back cover says (in English) “Stories of Charlie: What is the cat next door doing? Snoopy and Woodstock asks to each other in the back yard of Charlie Brown.”

The Kindle edition has the slightly longer, more indicative Stories of Charlie Brown.

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