On the tenth month of Christmas my true love got for me…

Running Press is coming out with some board books for the kids, adapting the classic Peanuts animated TV specials into a tidy ten pages apiece. Or at least, we’re pretty sure they’re board books. While the listing for the August-shipping It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown describes it as a board book, the current Amazon listing for September’s A Charlie Brown Christmas claims that its a calendar. A 10-page calendar. Because, I suppose, Christmas can’t last all year.

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