{"id":4691,"date":"2017-07-28T08:57:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T15:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4691"},"modified":"2017-07-31T17:28:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T00:28:43","slug":"great-grandpumpkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/great-grandpumpkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Grandpumpkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got four new Peanuts books in the mail this week.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GotARock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4692\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GotARock-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GotARock-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GotARock-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GotARock-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GotARock.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><strong><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_1966930\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/You-Rock-Charlie-Brown-Peanuts\/dp\/1534405011\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=dee90715cfb5c82d15dadcdfa6c4aeab&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"You Got a Rock, Charlie Brown! \" data-amzn-link-id=\"dee90715cfb5c82d15dadcdfa6c4aeab\">You Got a Rock, Charlie Brown! <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_1966930\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=dee90715cfb5c82d15dadcdfa6c4aeab&amp;_cb=1501221604916\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong> is a Ready-to-Read Level Two book that adapts parts of\u00a0<em>It&#8217;s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown<\/em>, focusing on the Charlie Brown portions. The adaptation is written by Maggie Tesla and drawn by Robert Pope, and it is well done for the format. They do give the tale a bit of a hopeful ending that the source material lacks, but then happying up Peanuts for other media seems to be the standard these days. The book comes with two pages of stickers &#8211; many of Peanuts characters, and then some stars with pro-reading text on them like &#8220;Reading star&#8221; and &#8220;I love to read!&#8221; and &#8220;I read this book!&#8221; And I got to tell you, that last one bothers me. Exactly where are you supposed to put it? If you put it on the book, then no one knows who &#8220;I&#8221; is. And if you put it on yourself, what&#8217;s the book?<\/li>\n<li><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_5757060\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Legend-Great-Pumpkin-Peanuts\/dp\/148149628X\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=0101c3ee8669b63aac446a6a33d47cc5&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"The Legend of the Great Pumpkin\" data-amzn-link-id=\"0101c3ee8669b63aac446a6a33d47cc5\"><strong>The Legend of the Great Pumpkin<\/strong><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_5757060\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=0101c3ee8669b63aac446a6a33d47cc5&amp;_cb=1501221645292\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/> is a shaped board book here each spread adapts a different Great Pumpkin-themed Peanuts strip with a couple images and a fair amount of text for the board book form. But hey, without the text, how else could kids learn the word &#8220;Zamboni&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GreatPumpkinReturns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4693\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GreatPumpkinReturns-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GreatPumpkinReturns-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GreatPumpkinReturns-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GreatPumpkinReturns-1024x816.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GreatPumpkinReturns.jpg 1757w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_4377509\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Pumpkin-Returns-Peanuts\/dp\/1481496646\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=927e2ad84600373c711da918b8c6ac0c&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"The Great Pumpkin Returns\" data-amzn-link-id=\"927e2ad84600373c711da918b8c6ac0c\">The Great Pumpkin Returns<\/a><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_4377509\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=927e2ad84600373c711da918b8c6ac0c&amp;_cb=1501221630845\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/> is a new story, a sequel to the TV special. It&#8217;s another year, and this time the person that Linus gets to accompany him to the pumpkin patch is someone with the same initials as &#8220;pumpkin patch&#8221;. No, not &#8220;Pig Pen&#8221;, it&#8217;s Peppermint Patty. This full-color wide paperback has about 24 pages of story, written by Jason Cooper, who is a staff writer at the Peanuts studio.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_1966930\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/You-Rock-Charlie-Brown-Peanuts\/dp\/1534405011\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=dee90715cfb5c82d15dadcdfa6c4aeab&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"You Got a Rock, Charlie Brown! \" data-amzn-link-id=\"dee90715cfb5c82d15dadcdfa6c4aeab\">You Got a Rock, Charlie Brown! <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_1966930\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=dee90715cfb5c82d15dadcdfa6c4aeab&amp;_cb=1501221604916\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong>is a second copy of the first book, because sometimes I forget that I ordered a book already and accidentally order it again. Some trick-or-treater will be leaving here with a book, come October.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got four new Peanuts books in the mail this week. You Got a Rock, Charlie Brown! is a Ready-to-Read Level Two book that adapts parts of\u00a0It&#8217;s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, focusing on the Charlie Brown portions. The adaptation is written by Maggie Tesla and drawn by Robert Pope, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}