If it worked for Malibu Stacy…

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

The garment-and-housewares store Kohl’s runs an ongoing charity fundraising drive, Kohl’s Cares, where they sell their own cheap editions of kids books and stuffed animals with the profit going to kids’ health and education charities. They’ve done Peanuts books on a number of occasions, including two years ago, when they offered the bundle of a stuffed Snoopy and hardcover adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas for $9.

Well, this year they’re offering basically the same deal again, only with one wrinkle: he has a hat!

Does this count as a new edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas? Well, I’m buying one, I can tell you that!

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas Ornament Book

This year’s first (and only??) new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas is here, and it’s not just a reprint of an existing one. No, the A Charlie Brown Christmas Ornament Book is a thing of its own… a board book with removable cardboard ornaments. That’s right, on each of …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
The little big Charlie Brown Christmas is back

Last year, I managed to slip up and not order the year’s new Hallmark book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas… which was just a reduced-size version of giant lights-and-sounds-and-pop-ups version that Hallmark had released in 2021. I had counted on them discounting the expensive book in their usual post-Christmas …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Hallmark pop-up slims down

Hallmark is offering a new edition adapting A Charlie Brown Christmas, and it’s a mite disappointing. That because it appears to be a reissuing of 2021’s giant lights-and-sounds edition, only smaller — where the previous book was 13.5″ by 16″, this one is only 11″ by 13.5″ – still large, …