Compact Happiness

Coming in August is a book that Amazon calls The Peanuts Classics Treasury: The Complete “Happiness Is” Collection but which the publisher’s website refers to as Peanuts: A Treasury of Happiness. Presumably, this is a collection of all the content from Happiness is a Warm Puppy, Security is a Thumb and a Blanket, Christmas is Together Time, I Need All The Friends I Can Get, Happiness Is A Sad Song, Suppertime, Home is on Top of a Doghouse, and Love is Walking Hand in Hand (and I just scared myself by typing all of those off of the top of my head — the whole point of making the AAUGH.com collectors’ guide was so that I wouldn’t have to carry stuff like that in my head, dadgummit!) It’s a hardcover, with a dust jacket, listed at $19.95 but with a substantial discount on your preorder.

And if I had to hazard a guess, I’d say that the listing on the publisher’s website will be the title. It’s more graceful, and avoids the confusingly overused Peanuts Classics tag. But time shall tell.

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