{"id":1191,"date":"2010-09-23T10:50:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T17:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2010-09-23T10:50:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T17:50:16","slug":"the-best-charlie-brown-christmas-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/the-best-charlie-brown-christmas-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The best Charlie Brown Christmas ever?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today brought me <a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/to.htm?076244004X\">a new book adaptation of <strong>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/strong> <\/a>&#8211; and this one is not just a new edition that&#8217;s only slightly different from a prior one. No, it&#8217;s not that it&#8217;s an all-new adaptation (it actually reuses all of the text and pieces of the art from the 2008), but it does add a whole new dimension to the adaptation &#8211;\u00a0 it&#8217;s a pop-up book!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/to.htm?076244004X\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"The gang dances in the Charlie Brown Christmas pop-up edition\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/images\/cbc\/2010Bi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Brown spins to address his dancers (yes, including Lucy, who did not dance in the special)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s lovely.<\/p>\n<p>It fits into the modern pop-up storybook sensibility: fewer pages, with higher-quality pop-up mechanisms. This is only 5 spreads long but three of the spreads have motion (and one has two side-flaps with smaller pop-ups). I almost missed the motion on the last spread &#8211; the first time I pulled out the words to &#8220;Hark, the Herald Angel Sings&#8221;, I didn&#8217;t notice that it caused some of the kids&#8217; heads to bop along as they sang.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not absolutely the best pop-up book I&#8217;ve ever seen &#8211; the world of pop-ups has come impressively far in the last decade or so &#8211; but it is the best Peanuts pop-up yet. List price is just under $23, but at the moment <a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/to.htm?076244004X\">you can trim more than $6 off of that<\/a>, and yes, it&#8217;s now shipping.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/to.htm?076244004X\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Solicitation cover for the Charlie Brown Christmas pop-up edition\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/images\/cbc\/2010Bcfake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This cover was used for the splicitation, and shows up in the online bookstores, but is not the actual cover.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/to.htm?076244004X\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Charlie Brown Christmas pop-up actual cover\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/images\/cbc\/2010Bc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The actual cover of the book has glitter highlights on the snow and on the Christmas tree decorations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And of course the book has been added into <a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/guide\/cbc.html\">The Evergreen, Evergrowing Gallery of <em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> Books<\/a>. It may be the last new one for a whole year! &gt;sniff&lt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today brought me a new book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas &#8211; and this one is not just a new edition that&#8217;s only slightly different from a prior one. No, it&#8217;s not that it&#8217;s an all-new adaptation (it actually reuses all of the text and pieces of the art &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases","category-now-shipping","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}