{"id":4225,"date":"2016-03-14T08:47:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2016-03-13T23:04:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T06:04:01","slug":"a-shiny-easter-beagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/a-shiny-easter-beagle\/","title":{"rendered":"A shiny Easter Beagle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The new book adaptation of the animated special\u00a0It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown<\/strong><\/a> is a slick production. The cover is embossed, with foil highlights and French flaps (that’s where the covers of a paperback are folded in to create inside flaps.<\/p>\n

The credits of the book are:<\/p>\n

By Charles M. Schulz<\/p>\n

Based on the animated special, the text was adapted by Daphne Pendergrass<\/p>\n

Illustrated by Vicki Scott<\/p>\n

…which is odd phrasing, with that sentency second line. But then, this book has odd phrasing in general: the story is told in the present tense. The opening sentence\u00a0is “The winter snow has melted, the birds are tweet-tweet-tweeting in the trees, and all the flowers are in bloom – it’s Easter time, and the whole neighborhood is getting ready!” That’s not how fiction books generally work; they’re almost always written in the past tense. “The winter snow had<\/em> melted, the birders were<\/em> tweet-tweet-tweeting,” and so forth. But for some reason, Simon & Schuster has been putting all of their Peanuts books in the present tense.<\/p>\n

Scott’s art always seems to have some of the extra energy of the Melendez-animated Peanuts work, even when she’s working on the comic books rather than an animation adaptation like this.<\/p>\n

All in all, this book does well what it’s supposed to do, telling the story from the animated special, not skimping on the Marcie & Peppermint Patty parts with the failed egg production efforts.<\/p>\n

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