{"id":389,"date":"2008-02-29T09:18:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T16:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=389"},"modified":"2008-02-29T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T16:18:25","slug":"the-three-latest-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/the-three-latest-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The three latest books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new paperback kids book adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/to.htm?0762431806\"><strong>It&#8217;s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown<\/strong><\/a>. This one comes with a sheet of stickers, including 3 of Snoopy and 1 each of six other characters. It&#8217;s an okay adaptation as such things go; the even line weight and coloring used for foreground and background make it a little hard on the eyes. 24 pages.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/to.htm?0762432381\"><strong>Where is Woodstock<\/strong><\/a> is a hardcover storybook about a Beagle Scout outing, with plastic three-dimensional birds build into the pages, and a pop-up at the end. They do make the effort to try to integrate gags from the strip into the book&#8230; which only reinforces my belief that kids books should actually reprint the strips. Solidly made.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/to.htm?0762432357\"><strong>Snoopy at the Bat<\/strong><\/a> is a board book with a flat Snoopy figure on a spring on the front cover, so it wobbles a bit. The text is a poem of the kids playing baseball, a careful echoing of &#8220;Casey at the Bat&#8221; but without the ambition indicated by that poem. Because it&#8217;s a book for kids&#8230; it&#8217;s gotta have a happy ending. Because there&#8217;s no entertainmnet value in the Peanuts characters losing a game, right?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/to.htm?0762431806\">the <strong>Easter Beagle<\/strong> book<\/a>the Easter Beagle book is part of Amazon&#8217;s 4-for-3 promotion &#8212; if you buy four books in this promotion, the cheapest one is free. But are there other books in this promotion you&#8217;d want? Let me point you to <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0762431725\">the board book adaptation of <strong>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/strong><\/a>, which is not only a 4-for-3 book but is also currently 53% off the cover price (not sure how long that discount will last, these high discounts can disappear suddenly.) Or the hardcover mini gift books of <a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/to.htm?0762416017\"><strong>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/strong><\/a> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0762427531\">A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving<\/a><\/strong>, which are each 43% off. Or use any of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Furl%3Dnode%253D220084011%26field-keywords%3Dcharles%2Bschulz%26x%3D0%26y%3D0&#038;tag=natgertlerwriter&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">dozens of regularly-priced Peanuts books<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=natgertlerwriter&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> or thousands of non-Peanuts books, CDs, and DVDs available as part of this promotion.<\/p>\n<p>In other news: a <a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/to.htm?0060937998\">paperback edition<\/a> of the problematic biography <strong>Schulz and Peanuts<\/strong> will ship in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received: The new paperback kids book adaptation of It&#8217;s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown. This one comes with a sheet of stickers, including 3 of Snoopy and 1 each of six other characters. It&#8217;s an okay adaptation as such things go; the even line weight and coloring used &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":[5,13,8,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discounts","category-new-releases","category-now-shipping","category-reviews","category-upcoming-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","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=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}