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A Charlie Brown Christmas (Running Press Miniatures)

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I love "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and so was completely disappointed by this paperback book edition of the story.
The "By Charles M. Schulz" on the cover and in the listing hides the fact that the text is not by Schulz, but is "adapted" by other people. The text adaptation is painfully bad -- I could barely force myself to read it to my child the other night. The text is way too wordy, which contradicts the whole style of Schulz's comic strip, and changes key dialog of characters.

The illustrations are okay, but why not just use the original drawings by Schulz himself?

A book version of A Charlie Brown Christmas was printed in the 1960's; the publishers would have been smarter to reissue the original book rather than create this new version.

If you want to have a book version of A Charlie Brown Christmas, I highly recommend that you spend a bit more money and buy the hardcover book, "A Charlie Brown Christmas: the Making of a Tradition". You won't regret it.

This delightful book successfully adapts the wonderful, classic television special of A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS to the page. The book is filled with many pictures from the special and most of the televised story remains intact in written form (about the only thing missing is Snoopy winning the decoration competition). The words and text to "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" are even printed on the inside back cover. Children of all ages love this book and it is sure to be a family holiday favorite to read every year.

This book was delivered in good condition and within the estimated delivery window. However, this book turned out to be about 2" square, and I was expecting a full-sized children's book instead of a decorator item. Mildly disappointing, since I love the Charlie Brown stories so much.

Perfect little stocking stuffer for a toddler. My daughter can fit this tiny little book in her play purse, it's gone on trips with us, she likes to open up to the picture pages and name the characters. We read it almost nightly!!!

Neat little compact book I keep in the center of my top stove in round decorative glass to remind me to keep that spirit the whole year through, and where I can find Charlie holding that Christmas tree, always. Love it!
Commercialized product? Shudder the thought, poor Charlie Brown.

Our Army family, as we traveled all over the world from 1962 to 1989, had some traditions that we passed on to the grandchildren, now numbering 19, so this year, we sent these books and the soundtrack from the jazz album to each of our 7 children's families, now scattered all over the country. We used to paint the Charlie Brown characters in a typical setting from the comic strip, on the front windows of our quarters, each of our children choosing which of the character to paint. Therefore, I wanted a book that would give them ideas for a setting and characters to paint in their own homes. This little book was perfect!

I bought this book for my 4 1/2 year old Snoopy obsessed daughter and she loves it. The book is a condensed version of the cartoon. Ours is a larger 8 inch by 6 inch board book with very brilliant colors and cute illustrations. A definite "must have" for any Charlie Brown fan!!

This is just a classic good movie. Everyone in our family enjoys it, and you just can't lose with this one!

Charlie Brown is being a xmas grump. For some reason he doesn't get it, at this particular point in time. Luckily, the rest of the Peanuts gang have a bit more of a clue, and then there is the faithful dog Snoopy, to help pull him through the midsummer morass of melancholy he is meandering his mug through.

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" is one of the greatest television shows of all time, thanks to a classic script by one of the greatest cartoonists of all time.

But this book just does not capture its flavor. The art is not by Schulz, and though loyal to his style, does not FEEL like Schulz. Couldn't they have used images from the actual show?

Worse, important moments are lost, probably due to space constraints. For instance, Linus's stirring soliloquy, performed solo in the show, here takes place in a crowded room for storytelling purposes.

I got this book for an office mate because she loves Schulz and because it was the only color Peanuts book I could find that was in the $5-10 price range dictated by our office Christmas pool.

People may well love this book because they love the TV show (and there's nothing wrong with that), but I don't think anyone would ever love it for itself.