As long as we’re in A Charlie Brown Christmas book season

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

I was recently looking over some of the coverage of the Schulzes opening their ice rink in Santa Rosa, and I noticed that a couple of papers had added illustrations. One used this picture:

…which is pretty obviously a narrowed tracing of this Dale Hale drawing from the first book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas:

But not articles were so derivative, as this blatant nonSchulz illo shows.

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book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas yet to come

Looks like Hallmark will be offering a new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas yet again this year. A Charlie Brown Christmas: An Interactive Story Experience comes bundled with “a plush Snoopy that shivers, hums and laughs along with the story”… apparently, there is communication between the book and the …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
Ho! Ho! and also, Ho!

They say bad luck comes in threes, but so do book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas, at least this year, and that isn’t a bad thing at all. Three different new editions arrived here at AAUGH Blog Central on the same day, which was great! I mean, imagine if …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
A portrait of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Also, a landscape.

Looks like we’ll be getting a couple more editions of book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas this year. One is a board book version of the 2015 Tina Gallo and Scott Jeralds adaptation that’s already been reworked before, and the other… is also a board book version of that …