{"id":7444,"date":"2025-03-10T22:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T05:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=7444"},"modified":"2025-03-10T22:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T05:15:21","slug":"review-snoopy-gets-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/review-snoopy-gets-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Snoopy Gets a Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, I&#8217;ve reviewed a couple of pre-Peanuts books about dogs named Snoopy&#8230; but my latest find is just a bit different. It&#8217;s about a white kitty, and\u00a0<em>her<\/em> name is Snoopy. And that&#8217;s a fact you might quickly glean from the tile:\u00a0<strong>Snoopy gets a name<\/strong>. Which, let&#8217;s face it, is a horrible title for a book. I mean, it ruins the entire development, let&#8217;s you know the ending right off. They should out a spoiler warning before that title.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SnoopyGetsaName.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7445\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SnoopyGetsaName-222x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SnoopyGetsaName-222x300.jpeg 222w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SnoopyGetsaName.jpeg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a>Snoopy gets a name\u00a0<\/em>(lack of title capitalization is their fault, not mine) was written by Marion M. Dryer, drawn by Mary Gehr, and published in 1946 by The Children&#8217;s Company. While this is Dryer; only book, Gehr not only illustrated a fair number of books, but also had a larger fine art career, with a large number of one-woman shows.<\/p>\n<p>The tale is pretty basic: this white Angora kitten is the most exploring-oriented one of her litter, strays far from momma and gets into a bunch of different things, but is loved by momcat in the end, and because of all the snooping around she does, gets named (spoiler warning) &#8220;Snoopy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The opening paragraph is &#8220;Snoopy. What a funny name for a fluffy, little, white Angora kitten. You&#8217;d think it would be Snowflake, or Snowball, or Whiteface, or, well, just ANYTHING but Snoopy!&#8221; And there it lost me; seems like a reasonable name for a cat to me.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot recommend this book aimed at the 5-8 crowd to any fifty-something year olds unless they&#8217;re obsessively buying anything with Snoopy in the title, in which case this is a prime example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, I&#8217;ve reviewed a couple of pre-Peanuts books about dogs named Snoopy&#8230; but my latest find is just a bit different. It&#8217;s about a white kitty, and\u00a0her name is Snoopy. And that&#8217;s a fact you might quickly glean from the tile:\u00a0Snoopy gets a name. Which, let&#8217;s face it, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7446,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-not-that-charlie-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444","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=7444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}