Woof and chirp, BFFs

Coming in February is Snoopy and Woodstock: Best Friends Forever, a storybook. The paperback comes with two pages of stickers, the hardcover edition doesn’t, but both have the same thrilling cover image of Snoopy and Woodstock skateboarding, Snoopy with his safety helmet, Woodstock with his yarmulka!

(“Yarmulka”, also known as “kipah”, is the religious headwear of Jewish males. That’s right, the jokes here come with explanatory subtitles!)
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More books a-comin’ and some site news

Got a couple new Peanuts books coming in the future, as well as catching up in news about the AAUGH Blog itself. Upcoming books “Please”, “Thank you”, sharing, and all that are coming your way in Snoopy’s Book of Manners, a board book by Patti Michaels and Robert Pope (based …

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It was a stormy Dark Knight…

Coming out in December is a facsimile edition of Detective Comics issue 500, the big thick issue-versary release from 1981. Detective Comics is a series that began in 1937, although it really picked up steam in 1939, when issue 27 introduced a little character called “The Batman”. Reaching issue 500 is an achievement …

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Offboarding

I can think of a number of times that Peanuts storybooks have been converted into board books, often with some shortening and simplification. And I can think of once or twice that the stories from board books have been included inside non-board anthologies of stories. But I can’t think of …