Lucy Says cover

This is the cover to Lucy Says, the penultimate Wendy’s Kids Meal Under-3 Peanuts book. As suspected, it features the round-headed kid not at all. Rather, it’s full -on Queen Lucy, Stratocaster-shaped noggin, frilly dress, and all.

Wendy’s has released this new batch of Kids Meal toys; if your local Wendy’s has the sign up for the National Geographic Kids toys, then they will likely have this book on hand (although you may need to talk them out of handing you leftovers from last month.) One of the toys is “3D Binoculars”… frankly, I’d be more impressed if they somehow had made binoculars which weren’t 3-D.

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If you love Schulz, but English, not so much…

Just out in Japan is the Japanese edition of Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, the Eisner Award-winning, Schulz Museum-published heavily illustrated book co-written by curator Benjamin L. Clark and myself! And yes, it can be shipped to the States… although it …

A Charlie Brown Christmas
A quote unquote requote book on A Charlie Brown Christmas

How can you tell that the new book “A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Timeless Tale of Joy and Meaning”: Unwrapping the True Spirit of the Holiday Season with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts Gang” is truly an innovative work? It’s the quotation marks in the title.  Not constrained by …

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Snoopy’s Book Café

Peanuts collector Lisa, who had been showing all her finds from a recent trip to Japan, started showing off one of the Re-Ment sets of little kits that combine to make a diorama. They do lovely work, but Peanuts statuary is not what I collect, and besides, these are Japanese …