A portrait of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Also, a landscape.

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

Looks like we’ll be getting a couple more editions of book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas this year. One is a board book version of the 2015 Tina Gallo and Scott Jeralds adaptation that’s already been reworked before, and the other… is also a board book version of that very adaptation. The difference? One is a big and wide book that has the same number of pages – 32 – as the original version….

…while the other is a more standard board book size and format, brings the adaptation down to 22 pages, has a padded, puffy cover, and is cheaper.

Which one should you buy? Decisions are bad. I’m buying both.

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