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Hello Snoopy

The thing that interests me about this book is the publisher: This shaped kiddie book is published by Sanrio, who are far better known for their original creations such as Hello Kitty and Badatz Maru. It wasn’t until I got this book that I thought about how much the Japanese …

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Discounts

Oops, big savings and free shipping before Christmas!

I missed the fact that BN is claiming that (unlike Amazon), their free shipping will still get there before Christmas… making the bargain all the better. So in addition to getting Celebrating Peanuts for 57% off cover, you can get The Complete Calvin and Hobbes for 54% off, or even …

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CORRECTIONL a big coupon

BN is doing a big coupon deal, just good today and tomorrow – 20% off of any one item, and that’s off of their already discounted prices. So Celebrating Peanuts, which lists for $75, and they usually price at $45, and which they are now running under an everyone-gets-member-prices deal …

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Franklin

Franklin in action

What you’re looking at is a Franklin action figure – I’m told it’s the first figure for this fine fellow. It’s part of this new A Charlie Brown Christmas action figure set… and if that gives you a moment of pause, it should. Franklin wasn’t in the special A Charlie …

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Animated Peanuts

A Charlie Brown Christmas online, free

Hey, ABC has put A Charlie Brown Christmas and Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales, online, for free viewing (with ads)! (Although for some reason they’re paying for ad placement for the online video of their December 8 airing, which was edited; the above link should be the full-length edition.) And if …

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Classic finds

Colourful cover of a Peanuts coloring book

Despite my broad interest in Peanuts books, I don’t generally pursue coloring books, but in my search for interesting Peanuts images, I couldn’t resist getting this coloring book… excuse me, a book of “pictures to colour”, it is British after all. Look at the rendering of color, the rosy cheeks. …

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General

Happy Beethoven’s birthday!

I hope you’re all eenjoying your Beethoven’s birthday celebrations. But while you’re exchanging your presents and singing your Beethoven carols,let us reflect on the fact that so many have forgotten thetrue meaning behind the holiday: Choose to care.

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Classic finds

Peanuts ornament book

When I first heard about the Peanuts Collectible Ornaments book, I put it down fairly low on my priority list. It wasn’t cheap (thirty bucks), and while it qualifies for the AAUGH.com Reference Library, books of pictures of stuff are a relatively low priority. However, the author is selling off …

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The ways of eBay, and what people are buying

So I was searching for Peanuts books on eBay the other day (an exercise which has gained me a lot of items and cost me a lot of money over the years), and I came across a copy of the leatherbound Easton Press edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas: The …

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Discounts

Considering its rarity, it’s a good price.

If you head over to Amazon now, you can order a used copy of Peppermint Patty and Marcie for $266, plus shipping. Now that may sound like a lot of money, but consider this: as best as I can tell, this book was never published. This book was an odd …

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