{"id":5820,"date":"2019-11-19T10:41:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5820"},"modified":"2019-11-19T10:41:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:41:53","slug":"a-couple-of-snow-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/a-couple-of-snow-days\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple of Snow Days!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was wading through eBay listings when I saw a Peanuts board book that I did not recognize-\u00a0Snow Day!<\/strong> The price was a fair bit higher than I would expect for an 8-page board book, but I did my diligence – it wasn’t available through Amazon, nor through a couple of other sites I checked, so I went ahead and coughed up the money anyway.<\/p>\n

And only after I hit the Pay button did I realize that I’d forgotten a key part of my usual diligence:\u00a0check eBay!\u00a0<\/em>And instantly, I came across several cheaper listings for the same dang thing. I was kicking myself when I noticed something: one of those listings had a different cover from what I just ordered. And it only cost a couple of bucks. So I went instantly from feeling that I had already paid too much to paying more just to have this second copy of the same book.<\/p>\n

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The differences are more than just the cover images (although the back covers differ as well.) The version with the livelier cover is half an inch shorter, a mere 8 inches instead of 8.5. It is also pre-priced at $1 on the back cover, so my immediate though was “oh, they took something they’d already released and came out with a cheaper version for Dollar General and such.”<\/p>\n

But I had that backwards, it seems. The shorter version has a 2018 copyright date. The taller version… has no copyright information at all! (Attn: Peanuts Worldwide \u2013 Product lacking copyright notice!) But they both appear to have printing dates encoded on them, with the smaller one being printed 6\/18 and the larger one a year later.<\/p>\n

The interiors are the same – five spreads of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Rerun playing in the snow. This is one of the rare books were Rerun is the primary cover character (although I did just stumble across an Italian one from 1985.)<\/p>\n

These are published by Brendon, Inc., who publish a lot of licensed items.<\/p>\n

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