The little big Charlie Brown Christmas is back

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

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 cheap dumping of that year’s Christmas goods… but if they put it on sale, I missed it.

Apparently, though, they just held on to the leftovers to sell them this year! The book is again available on their website, and I have shed my pecuniary concerns and glommed on to a copy at full price. The world makes sense again.

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, theĀ 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
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, …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
Christmas by the numbers

It is that time of year again! The days are getting just a mite shorter, the first skeletons of the season are appearing on neighborhood lawns. You can feel the excitement in the crisp air, for surely it is time for the greatest gift a year has to bring: a …