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<\/p>\nThe Snoopy\/NASA Happy Meals have arrived at some (not all) US locations – one of the two places in town still has Lion King toys. But I hit the second one, and grabbed myself up two of the four books in the set. (There are also four toys, but I have no need for toys.) And for those who don’t know: they will indeed sell you the books or toys without purchasing any fast food – they charged me $1.69 apiece.<\/p>\n
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Snoopy: Constellation Quest<\/em> is a mild story about Snoopy, Woodstock, Lucy, and Linus identifying the constellations in the night sky.\u00a0Snoopy: The Mars Rover<\/em> is about Charlie Brown dictating a school report about Mars for Snoopy to type, which spins Snoopy off into a fantasy of traveling to Mars to beat the Mars Rover (which he thinks is a dog, Rover) there. This is my preferred of the two books, both because there’s a bit more going on than just raw education (although of course CB’s report gives them a chance to lay down some basic Mars facts), and, well, I’ve got pals who worked on the Rover, so Rover stuff is a bit extra cool for me.<\/p>\n Each of the books has some sort of interactive element. The Constellations book has a layered back page – shove a cardboard “spotlight” between the layers, and “constellations” made of holes cut in the black top layer become visible. The Rover book comes with a red plastic filter that you can look at the pages through to reveal hidden figures.<\/p>\n Are these the best of Peanuts? Well, no. They’re notably conflict-free… understandable in a work that needs to get approved by a government branch and a major food corporation as being appropriate for kiddies. Peanuts in-house writing guy Jason Cooper and artist Tom Brannon, who has done some of the most high-visibility Peanuts projects, do a reasonable job of making a book that will be acceptable to all. But still, if you get your kid one of these, get them a good book of strips as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Snoopy\/NASA Happy Meals have arrived at some (not all) US locations – one of the two places in town still has Lion King toys. But I hit the second one, and grabbed myself up two of the four books in the set. (There are also four toys, but I … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5727,"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-5726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726","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=5726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}