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<\/a>There’s Snoopy’s Happy Tales!<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, which collects five storybooks into a single hardcover volume. I’ve reviewed most of the stories before, so I’ll just put links to those reviews:<\/p>\n- \n
- A Best Friend for Snoopy<\/a><\/li>\n
- Snoopy Takes Off!<\/a><\/li>\n
- Woodstock’s First Flight!<\/a><\/li>\n
- Snoopy Goes to School<\/li>\n
- Shoot for the Moon, Snoopy!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The stories are printed larger here, on pages that are 9″ square rather than the 8″ square that most of the included tales first appeared in. A couple of these tales also appear in Peanuts 5-Minute Stories<\/a><\/em>
, so those of us who are collecting completists get them a third time here!<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Then there’s\u00a0A Snoopy Tale<\/a><\/strong>, which is the latest storybook adapting a short from\u00a0The Snoopy Show<\/em>, the Apple TV+, once again using screen shots from the animation rather than new art. This one is about Snoopy getting his autobiography published.<\/p>\n
But to balance out the new stuff, I picked up an old book as well — specifically 1985’s\u00a0Ineffable Snoopy<\/em>, which is a French reprinting of strips culled from\u00a0The Snoopy Festival<\/em>. Now, I already have examples of the books in this series published by Dargaud, in a tall, hardcover, album format (but thin, a mere 48 pages). Now, I’m not a completist on foreign-language books published abroad; I’m really just looking for examples from each language, and then examples of interesting formats. I already have one of this series, so why buy another? I just liked the title. Snoopy cannot be effed! (Ineffable — <\/em>the state of being great beyond what words can describe — is not a word one hears that much these days. Indeed, I’m confident that 95%+ of the times I’ve heard it invoked in that past five years have been in discussions of the novel\u00a0Good Omens<\/em> and the TV series based on it, as authors Gaiman and Pratchett had used it repeatedly.)<\/p>\n
But I’ve no idea why Snoopy looks so angry when he’s holding up a sign describing himself thusly!<\/p>\n
- Snoopy Takes Off!<\/a><\/li>\n