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
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 …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
Finally, a book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas!

Coming this September is a book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas! Oh, okay, there’s been such books before, but this one has an adaptation by artist Vicki Scott and writer Maggie Tesla!! Oh, okay, this adaptation has been published before, but this particular adaptation has never been published with a …