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Well, yes it is a Peanuts comic book

The latest addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library (and one of the few items that is not currently in a moving box marked “Peanuts – Various”… makes it so easy to find things!) is this first issue of Comic Hits. Haven’t heard of this Peanuts comic book? I’m not surprised. …

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Happiness is Jonathan Winters

I’m watching an old Jonathan Winters special from the mid-1960s when suddenly, wham, Peanuts reference. Coming back from commercial, the camera pans across a bunch of stuffed Peanuts dolls piled in and around a toy box. Winters appears, saying “a friend of mine, Charlie Schulz,  wrote a book about a …

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Not-so-new review.

When I reviewed The Doctor is In in my last blog entry, I thought that I was reviewing a new book. But according to the publisher’s website., the book was released on January 20, 1968! (I really should do a screen capture to prove it says that, but I’m feeling …

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At least now I have Charlie Brown’s autograph

Review: It’s not that Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown Remembers Atlanta: Memoirs of a Public Man is an as-told-to book by an Atlanta politician. Published in 1982, with both a full-color image and a fold-out page with all the members of the all-white, all-male Georgia Senate of the late 1950s and …

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the central business of this blog

I must apologize, dear readers. Here it is, the sixth day of the month, and I’ve yet to do a post about print adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas. But come, let me address that now! My guide already had the 1977 book & record set issued by Charlie Brown …

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Oh, okay, more on A Charlie Brown Christmas books

Not my fault! People send in questions (to questions@AAUGH.com ), and while I won’t answer them all, and much less answer them publicly,  this one I felt called for a public answer. Steve from Michigan was asking, in regard to this book: What I dont understand though is why that …

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Nat should be talking about A Charlie Brown Groundhog Day by now…

Yes, yes, I’m writing about book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas again. It’s a mania, I tell ya, a mania! Today, the mail brought a first printing of the original book adaptation. Now, I know what you’re thinking — didn’t I already have a first printing? In fact, lots …

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Golf like a dog

I just added two more pieces to my Peanuts publications pile: Welcome to Golf is a 32-page self-covered booklet from 1994 covering the basics of golf for the newcomer, not so much the rules as why to golf, where to golf, and how to avoid getting on the nerves of …

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our holiday project – the A Charlie Brown Christmas book guide

This is what I was promising yesterday – sorry, but it took me a few more hours than expected to put it together. But now, at last, civilization is ready for: The AAUGH.com Evergreen, Evergrowing Guide to A Charlie Brown Christmas Books! Spread the word!

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another Hallmark edition

I was reminded today that I’ve not really kept an eye on my local Hallmark store, because I discovered another Hallmark edition of a Peanuts book, one that likely came out a few years back. It’s Peanuts Guide to Life. In addition to having Hallmark markings, their edition differs from …