The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 5 days to go
The Peanuts Christmas Ornament Book gets my affection because it’s a book. And it’s a good thing it says that it’s a book in the title, because otherwise I might never have known. Normally, I would not consider a folded cardboard sheet with pop-out shapes to be a book. In …
The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 6 days to go
You thought I was kidding about that earlier cover when I said that the presents were about to hit the smiling, oblivious youth in their noggins. But on this book you see the sort of thing that happens. And its title, Bah, Humbug!, reflects that other side of Christmas, one …
Which holiday is that?
The special A Charlie Brown Christmas airs tonight, on ABC Last night, Fox aired Happiness is a Warm Blanket, and promoted it as a “Holiday Special”.
The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 7 days to go
This 1979 coloring book isn’t just A Charlie Brown Christmas, it’s The Charlie Brown Christmas. And that cover is sweet! Although the interior does have one thing that bugs my in coloring books: characters who have their mouths open, clearly talking, but there’s no word balloon or caption to tell …
The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 8 days to go
If I liked the book from two days ago because it was a Christmas book with a cactus on the cover, and I liked the one yesterday because it was a Christmas book that was actually a Christmas ornament, then Snoopy: Desert Christmas is double-special… triple, if you count the …
The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 9 days to go
This mini version of the 1980 update of Christmas is Together Time (well, the original version actually had a hyphen, Together-Time) is on the list because it’s not just a Christmas book, its also a Christmas ornament!
The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 10 days to go
I like the strip collection Lighten Up, It’s Christmas – because it’s a Christmas book with a cactus on the cover!
The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 11 days to go
Today’s entry is I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown, because not all book adaptations are of A Charlie Brown Christmas, and even the third best Peanuts Christmas special is still pretty good.
Be covers to upcoming books
We’ve got covers for a couple of books that are coming out next February: Click on the covers to go preorder these books, or to go do other online shopping (we’re getting to the end of time when you can order with their free super-saver shipping and still get the …
The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 12 days to go
The cover of It’s Christmas, a strip reprint from 1996, is a perfect Christmas image: children and animals dancing gleefully, unaware of the giftwrapped packages that are plummeting toward their fragile heads.