He’s big in Japan, but then again, he’s big everywhere

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I don’t actively try to add notebooks to the AAUGH.com Reference Library, but this one came as a gift from my daughter. She was placing an order from a Japanese cute-stuff store, and this was the only Peanuts item they had: an Olaf notebook. A 2014 release from Kamio, I suspect this is the only thing they had left from a line. Each right-hand page has a place in the upper right corner for “No.” and “Date”, so this lined notebook may be meant for some specific use… and that specific use is glorifying Olaf!

A picture of a notebook with a large image of Olaf and nine small images of Snoopy. Text: Snoopy's brother Olaf "I'm kind of groovy!"

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