A Hallmark pop-up slims down

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

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, but not that large. And really, the size was the biggest thing the older edition; the pop-ups were okay, the lighting kinda weak.

Am I going to buy this new edition? Yes, because I’m a completionist when it comes to book editions of A Charlie Brown Christmas. And while this new edition if $45 instead of the larger one’s $65, I’m still going to wait until I can get some sort of a discount on it.

Speaking of discounts… Hallmark also has the light-up pop-up adaptation of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown for half off in th wake of the holiday. $12.49 is a pretty good price for this book, which I find better in its effects than the Christmas book.

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 …

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 …