Charlie Brown – cover-blocked again

The new Wendy’s Kids’ Meal book which started rolling out yesterday features, on its cover, Snoopy. That’s right, even for a book titled I Love Baseball, Charlie Brown gets totally Rodney Dangerfiel’d!

If your Wendy’s has the signage indicating that they have toys linked to the movie Zookeeper, then they should have this as the kids-under-3 book. If, however, they still have signs for Minute to Win It, you’ll probably have to come back on some other day.

Full review to come once I get a copy, of course.

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