{"id":1485,"date":"2011-04-07T16:01:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T23:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2011-04-07T16:01:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T23:01:55","slug":"what-snoopy-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/what-snoopy-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"What Snoopy reads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, let me make something clear. I am not<\/em> a Peanuts collector. I am a Peanuts book<\/em> collector. While I may accumulate other Peanuts stuff in various ways, I have no goal of having a complete set of anything or a great array of everything or any such things. In the interest of my available funds, available space, the available reservoirs of willingness-to-humor-Nat’s-insanity which is found in my loved ones, I do not collect the various googaws, the various Christmas ornaments, the wide assortment of statuary or stuffed versions of he characters.<\/p>\n

\"\"So why did I just by a stuffed Snoopy? Simple: because he’s reading a book. And not just any book, he’s reading a Peanuts book!<\/p>\n

And to be clear, he’s not just reading some generic Peanuts book. He’s reading a specific Peanuts book: The Peanuts Guide to School Days<\/em>, which was the first in a series of activity books published by Scholastic. It even has the publisher’s name and logo on the back cover.<\/p>\n

That sort of specificity leads me to suspect that this (an eBay find) was not a standard stuffed critter release being offered through retail outlets. It looks more like a promo item of some sort, whether it was being simply given to people to encourage the sales of this particular book series, or whether it was a special offer where a subscription to the series got you a free stuffed Snoopy, or what.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But it should be noted that the book doesn’t have the actual contents of The Peanuts Guide to School Days<\/em>. No, as you’ll see in the photo here, the book depicts a series of jagged diagonal lines. It’s like… ohmigoodness, it is! Snoopy is reading about the design of Charlie Brown’s shirt!<\/em> (Surely a topic to keep a stuffed animal in stitches.)<\/p>\n

Now, if I were to be designing such a toy, with Snoopy reading a Peanuts book, this is not the volume which I would have chosen. What should Snoopy be reading? All About Me<\/em>, of course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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