The mostly-clothing store Kohl’s regular runs Kohl’s Cares merchandise, special products (generally, kids’ books and stuffed animals) that they sell for $5, with the profits going to charity. And with Christmas shopping season coming up, they’ve just launched the new campaign with about a dozen Peanuts items… five stuffed characters, one jigsaw puzzle, and six books.<\/p>\n
Now, most of this stuff is not of particular interest to me. I don’t collect stuffies, or jigsaw puzzles, and the books are just Kohl’s editions of existing Peanuts books, and I don’t try collecting every edition of the books.<\/p>\n
Well, except for one.<\/p>\n
I gotta own every edition of any book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>. That is my madness.<\/p>\n And yes, one of the books Kohl’s is offering an edition of is A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>. And no, it’s not the same one that they offered eight years ago<\/a>. It’s an edition of an adaptation that first appeared in 2008<\/a>, and has been reused repeatedly since.<\/p>\n So the items were supposed to be appearing this weekend. So I got in the car yesterday, headed out to store in the next town. And they had out the stuffies (well, Snoopy, Woodstock, and Charlie Brown; the Linus and Lucy are available by online order only.) The jigsaw puzzle was there. And they had the great bargain among the book deals: a copy of Happiness is a Warm Puppy<\/em> and a copy of Christmas is Together-Time<\/em>, nice little gift books from the 1960s, $5 for the pair.<\/p>\n But they had no copies of the Happiness is a Warm Blanket<\/em> adaptation (it’s the prose-and-pictures adaptation, not the superior graphic novel edition); no copies of the conceptually conflicted titles You Can Be Anything!<\/em> and Be Yourself!<\/em> And most importantly, no A Charlie Brown Christ<\/em>mas.<\/p>\n So I’ll have to go back next week.<\/p>\n