The AAUGH Blog Podcast: A Charlie Brown Christmas book adaptations part 2

The AAUGH Blogger looks at about thirty years worth of book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas adaptations, the varying art and the varying formats it’s presented in. Because when you look at the small details of anything, it can become interesting.

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Peanuts for penguins

In late October 1957, newspaper reporter Rolla Crick meant to be visiting the US Navy’s south pole station (Amundsen-Scott) only briefly, but the engine on the US Navy Neptune that had brought him and others there had  broken down and they were all stuck to stay there for weeks. That’s …

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Franklin on Board

While they’ve been turning a number of the many Peanuts storybooks into board books, I was not expecting this one. Yes, coming in August is a board book version of It’s Hockey Time, Franklin!, one of the few storybooks to focus on the young guy stuck with sitting adjacent to …

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The AAUGH Blogger at Wondercon

Coming up in a couple weeks is Wondercon, the San Diego Comic-Con’s younger, lighter sister in lovely Anaheim, California. And on Friday, March 27, at 2:30 PM Pacific time, in room 213AB of the Anaheim Convention Center, there is going to be a panel labeled “Charles Schulz and Peanuts”. Who …