Today brought me a new book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas – and this one is not just a new edition that’s only slightly different from a prior one. No, it’s not that it’s an all-new adaptation (it actually reuses all of the text and pieces of the art from the 2008), but it does add a whole new dimension to the adaptation –  it’s a pop-up book!

It’s lovely.

It fits into the modern pop-up storybook sensibility: fewer pages, with higher-quality pop-up mechanisms. This is only 5 spreads long but three of the spreads have motion (and one has two side-flaps with smaller pop-ups). I almost missed the motion on the last spread – the first time I pulled out the words to “Hark, the Herald Angel Sings”, I didn’t notice that it caused some of the kids’ heads to bop along as they sang.

It’s not absolutely the best pop-up book I’ve ever seen – the world of pop-ups has come impressively far in the last decade or so – but it is the best Peanuts pop-up yet. List price is just under $23, but at the moment you can trim more than $6 off of that, and yes, it’s now shipping.

And of course the book has been added into The Evergreen, Evergrowing Gallery of A Charlie Brown Christmas Books. It may be the last new one for a whole year! >sniff<

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