We just purchased a (used) display case, so it finally became time to put together the set of Japanese Snoopy’s Book Cafe miniatures that I’d purchased a couple years back.
Rather than using the two-pieces-of-cardboard backdrop that comes with the set, we purchased a larger, plastic set of walls and floors, and my daugther (who did most of the assembly) painted it. The set came with little plastic “books”, some permanently closed, others that are permanently open (and you used stickers to put in interiors.) What rare Peanuts book-shaped objects do I now own?
Here’s most of them. While most of them have reasonable Peanuts book titles like Snoopy & Woodstock and Snoopy and his Brothers, there is one that’s just called Academic Book, and for that I have particular affection.
All in all, it looks like a cozy place to be, and if I’m ever miniature, I’ll be sure to stop by!
What else do we have in our display? Well, there’s another Peanuts project in the works, but I will (maybe) cover that later. The center part of the display is actually a bookshelf, which we are using for not-actually-books, but for bookshelf dioramas that my wife and daughter have built from kits.
Some of these have lights built in, although they aren’t plugged in at the moment. What they don’t have is Snoopy or anything Peanuts at all… but as it happens, this morning I was looking at what was on sale as part of Amazon’s Prime Days, and guess what not only exists but is discounted!
And remember, if you click through on this link for Peanuts Storybook Corner, anything that you order during that Amazon session (even if you don’t order this) generates some money for the AAUGH Blog. (A few of the other Peanuts things showing up on sale: A Chef Snoopy tea kettle, a Snoopy doghouse lunch pail, a box set of the kid-aimed strip reprint books, a Magnetix building title set.)
