A recent addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is スヌーピー折り紙, a book of Peanuts origami projects. However, achieving hte results they show takes more than folding and connecting pieces of paper, as they want you to add faces and other markings to the pieces, which means you’ll have channel your inner Schulz a bit.

This book costs about $9 in Japan. If you buy it at one of the US Kinokuniya stores (which is how my copy was acquired), you can expect to put out about $24 bucks for it… but it spares you trying to have it shipped from Japan. Or you can get one on eBay for $41. Or you can just sit back, appreciate that something interesting exists, and forego needing to hold it in your own hands. Sometimes, that’s the healthy option.

And as long as I’m covering books I’ve gotten, I realized that a post or two back, I referred to a book coming with a set of figures as containing some of the same figures that came with Peanuts: Tattle Tales, but I’d not actually covered that book, which arrived this summer. It’s a boxed set of a board book and PVC figures of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Sally, and Woodstock (who is atop a bird bath, allowing him to be roughly that same scale as the others while creating a figure big enough for small hands to hold. The board book has six spreads, each showing how two of the Peanuts characters interact with each other through an image and a few sentences of text and, in 3 cases, a daily strip. The book is $9.99, so not the worst price if you like getting PVC figures… but if that’s your goal, I’d steer you back toward Peanuts: My Busy Books, which has all these 4 figures, and 6 more, for $16.99. That one even includes figures for Franklin and Marcy, who are on the box cover for the Tattle Tales set but nowhere inside.

As it happens, I still have the image of the cover as originally solicited (right) as well as the released one (left), so you can play “find the differences”!

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