A plethora of Peanuts kids books coming. Maybe two pelthorae

Simon & Schuster, who for years put out Peanuts kids books (adaptations of animation, original storybooks, and so forth) under their Little Simon imprint, are jumping back on that wagon again, and not in a small way. This time, they’ve been named as the “master licensee” for Peanuts children’s books, says Publisher’s Weekly. This means that the would have control over book licensing, and would be able to sublicense rights. Their push starts in the middle of next year, during the gearing up to the release of the movie next fall. They’ll be launching with at least a dozen titles; I wouldn’t be surprised if this included returning a number of their previous titles to print (and perhaps including the title or two that got announced but never released, and haunted online bookseller catalogs for years.)

As we get closer to the film, I expect we’ll find a few more projects designed to take advantage of its popularity; with luck, they will be things that bring joy to us as fans, and not just Cost Nat Money.

Thanks to AAUGH Blog fan John for pointing this article out; it got by me while I’m on deadline for a project.

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