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IN THIS ISSUE:
*PEANUTS CLASSICS REPRINT PLANS
*$5 OFF SPECIAL AT THE ULTRA-DISCOUNT SHOP
*BOOK AVAILABILITY
*PEANUTS MYSTERY
*SNOOPY SNO-CONE MAKER IN STOCK
*ODD PEANUTS BOOKS: COOKING FROM THE DOGHOUSE
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PEANUTS CLASSICS REPRINT PLANS
I was just in contact with a representative from Henry Holt, who publish the Peanuts Classics books (the current reprints of strips from 1952 through 1984). She told me that they are preparing to return to press for the following titles:
*Peanuts Every Sunday (Sunday strips from 1958-1961)
*What’s Wrong With Being Crabby (originally published as As You Like It Charlie Brown; strips from 1963-1964)
*My Anxieties Have Anxieties (originally published as You’ve Had It, Charlie Brown; strips from 1967-1968)
*It’s Great To Be A Superstar (originally published as You’re Out Of Sight, Charlie Brown; strips from 1969-1970)
*You’ve Come A Long Way, Charlie Brown (which contains half of the material from the first book of this title, plus half of the material from You’re You, Charlie Brown, which means that it has strips from the 1967-1971 era.)

She also noted that many of the other titles are still in print, so don’t be afraid to order books that are listed as Back Ordered; they may well come through. Other books may be coming up for reprinting as well.
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$5 OFF AT THE ULTRA-DISCOUNT SHOP
Many of you realize that AAUGH.com is actually two shops: the main shop and the second shop which I unimaginatively refer to as the ULTRA-discount shop. Well, for those who haven’t discovered the ULTRA-discount shop, or for those who have and want to go back for more, I’ve got a deal for you: $5 OFF ANY PURCHASE OF $25 OR MORE!
Those of you who have checked out the ULTRA-discount shop know that it doesn’t have a lot of Peanuts books in it; at the moment, we’re down to about a half dozen different titles, and with those at about half-off. So I started digging through the catalog and discovered that I could offer up books of dozens of different strips, everything from Adam to Zits, including such popular strips as Dilbert, For Better Or For Worse, Doonesbury, Calvin & Hobbes, Cathy, Foxtrot, Garfield, and Mutts. I’ve provided links for all those strips, which cover over 100 different books, most at about HALF OFF the cover price even before your $5 discount. And if those books aren’t enough, you can search through the catalog yourself and find thousands of other books, including bestselling authors like Dave Barry, Stephen King, and Nat Gertler! So surf on over to:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/nat/ultra.htm
and start shopping and get your $5 off.

(Books carried in the Ultra-Discount shop are Remaindered, which means that either the publisher decided they had more of this book in stock than they needed, or the stores ordered more than they could sell and returned them. They are new books, not used. However, they do usually have a marking pen mark on the top or bottom edge of the book, which is used to seperate the remaindered books from the unremaindered copies.)

This $5 off deal is good until April 30th (which, totally coincidentally, is my birthday). However, if you’re interested, hop on it quickly. They’re down to their last few copies on some of these books, and with the nature of the remaindered book market, they probably won’t be able to replace anything that sells out. The good news is that what they have on the list, they have in stock — no waiting for "Back Ordered" books here!
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BOOK AVAILABILITY
The latest book to come back to quick availability is You’re Not Alone, Charlie Brown. This is a small paperback that reprints strips from around 1988. The strips in this book are not in any of the Peanuts Classics books; they were in volumes 7 and 8 of the Peanuts Collector Series, which are no longer in print.

Peanuts: A Golden Celebration is spending another week on the hardcover nonfiction bestseller list (it actually moved up a spot), which means that it’s still at 50% off.

If you head over to http://AAUGH.com , we always list on the first page what strip reprint books are available for quick ordering. These books usually ship in within 3 days, often within one day. (How long they take to arrive is another matter; it depends heavily one what shipping method you choose.)
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PEANUTS MYSTERY: PEPPERMINT PATTY’S MOTHER
People ask me a lot of Peanuts questions. (If you have a web page, everyone assumes you’re an expert!) One which pops up from time to time is "What happened to Peppermint Patty’s mother?" Usually, the person has just stumbled across some strips that indicate that her mother isn’t around, and assumes that her absence was established somewhere.

The truth is that I don’t know what happened to her mother. In fact, Charles Schulz admitted at times that he didn’t even know! They did make an error in one of the TV specials and refer to her having a mother, but the TV specials really don’t "count" for this sort of thing. I suspect the mother has been gone for a while; Patty’s love of sports and tomboyish dress suggest that she has been mainly influenced by her dad.

Some people think Peppermint Patty is weird because she calls Charlie Brown "Chuck" all the time. To me, that makes a lot more sense than calling a little kid by his full name all the time. It’s the rest of the kids who are weird!
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SNOOPY SNO-CONE MAKER IN STOCK
Just added to our Toys page: the Snoopy Sno-Cone Maker. Designed for ages 4 to 10 (and for nostalgiacs 20 and up), this simple device shaped like Snoopy’s doghouse will let your kid make small sno-cones. No batteries are needed, nor are any fancy ingredients. All you need is some ice, some sugar, some drink mix (like Kool Aid or Flav-r Aid) and a little while cranking the crank. Sure, the cranking can be hard work, but then you have a sno-cone to cool off with!
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ODD PEANUTS BOOKS: COOKING FROM THE DOGHOUSE
For this week’s feature, I delve into my personal collection and come up with THE SNOOPY DOGHOUSE COOK BOOK, subtitled 59 Recipes For Your Dog. Now don’t worry, this isn’t like 59 Recipes For Chicken, and you won’t find Poodle Au Gratin or Mutt Loaf. Instead, it’s recipes to make meals for your dogs. Published in 1979 by Determined Productions, you’ll find such unlikely doggy meals as Macaroni And Cheese, Tuna Casserole, and even Chicken And Matzoh (in case your chihuahua celebrates Passover, I suppose.) The recipes are written by Evelyn Shaw, PhD (I didn’t know you could get a doctorate in dogfood), and every other page is a full-page Peanuts illustration in color (apparently reworked and repurposed Schulz art, with a horrible unPeanuts font used for the lettering.) This book is no longer in print.

I think this brings the Odd Peanuts Books feature of this newsletter to a close, as I’ve used up the oddest ones. Don’t worry; next issue I’ll start up another feature for the Peanuts book collector, it just won’t be based around oddness!
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Well, that’s about it for this newsletter. As usual, if you have any comments, questions, suggestions, or complaints, let me know. I like hearing from Peanuts fans. In the past year I’ve heard from folks on six different continents (so where are all the Peanuts fans on Antarctica? I need to complete my set!) This newsletter gets sent out not only across the U.S., but to such distant locales as Australia, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Japan, and Israel.

No matter where you travel, you’ll never be far from a fellow Peanuts fan.

–Nat Gertler proprietor http://AAUGH.com

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IN THIS ISSUE
*PEANUTS BOOK AVAILABILITY
*COLLECTORS GUIDE EXPANDED
*A GOLDEN CELEBRATION CONTINUES ITS REIGN
*AUCTION CAUTION
*WEIRD PEANUTS BOOK: GUARALDI’S CHORD ORGAN FUN
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PEANUTS BOOK AVAILABILITY
This has been a pretty quiet week in terms of changes to the list of what Peanuts books are quickly available. Quickly available once again are LEAD ON, SNOOPY (A small paperback which reprints strips from 1988. These strips were previously available in the Peanuts Collector Series book Could You Be More Pacific, but not in any of the Peanuts Classics series. Also quickly available is ONCE YOU’RE OVER THE HILL (YOU BEGIN TO PICK UP SPEED), a hardcover gift book with strips about aging and the passage of time. All of the Peanuts Treasury books continue to be quickly available. I keep hoping we’ll see a sudden rush of Peanuts Classics volumes added to the "ships in 1 to 3 days" list, but no luck yet! If you can’t stand waiting for this weekly update on the list, keep checking the front page of http://AAUGH.com to see what strip reprint books are quickly available.

Being offered again is The Best Of Little Nemo In Slumberland, a collection of the classic Sunday strip series with section introductions by Schulz, Calvin & Hobbes’ Bill Watterson, Maurice Sendak, and more. You’ll find that on the Schulz Illustrations page of AAUGH.com.
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COLLECTORS GUIDE EXPANDED
The AAUGH.com Peanuts Book Collector’s Guide has been greatly expanded, to include more categories of Peanuts books. It has also been reorganized, putting more categories on different pages to make it all a bit easier to sift through. New categories include:
*Cookbooks
*Kids Storybooks And Reference Books (The Charlie Brown Dictionary, etc.)
*Prose And Picture books (This has a lot of the books that used to be on the Original Books section of the list, such as Happiness Is A Warm Puppy, plus books which reuse Schulz’s drawings to similar ends, but don’t appear to be written by Schulz.)
*Schulz Teenager Comics (collections of the work that he did for Church Of God magazines)
*Essay Books (Books that use Peanuts strips to illustrate other concepts, such as The Gospel According To Peanuts, or Rabbi Twerski’s self-help books)
*Peanuts Histories (biographies of Schulz and histories of the strip)

This is in addition to the already existing pages on strip reprint books, British books, comic book magazines, and books with Schulz introductions and illustrations. Types of books that the guide does not cover (yet!) include coloring and activity books, music books, and blank books. I expect to add those eventually (I may work on the music books portion this week.) These lists are built up by combining information from my own sizable collection with information on books that I see elsewhere and information that fellow Peanuts fans send to me. If you own a book that should be on the list but isn’t, send me the information about it!
There are still a number of clean-ups and polished that I’m going to make to the pages to make them easier to read and use, but I couldn’t wait to get the pages up. To see this guide for yourself, surf on over to http://AAUGH.com and click on the Collector’s Guide link on the left side.

>From time to time, I consider putting out a small book or magazine-format version of the guide. Does that sound like a good idea?
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A GOLDEN CELEBRATION CONTINUES ITS REIGN
Peanuts: A Golden Celebration, is now in its third week on the New York Times Best-Seller list…
which means we’re in our third week of offering it for half off! It’s a nice book for $45; for $22.50, it’s a bargain. That price is good through at least the end of Thursday.
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AUCTION CAUTION
Let me caution everyone once again against getting too caught up in online auctions. Online auctions can be very good if you know what you’re getting and what it’s worth to you. However, looking around on eBay yesterday, I saw a number of people bidding more than retail price for books that are easily available for retail price or below (including being available at a discount through AAUGH.com). I also saw a number of items misdescribed, either by accident or through malice (in-print books being described as out-of-print, or publication dates being shown as much earlier than they actually were), as well as a number of things that were unverifiable (original signatures or sketches). And that’s not to mention the rather bizarre perceptions of value that some auctioneers have (at auction, everything is "rare". I saw someone trying to auction three common Fawcett Crest paperbacks in so-so condition for $375!)

If you don’t know what you’re bidding on, don’t bid. Don’t take the word of the auctioneer. And try to keep a sane view of what the item is worth to you.
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WEIRD PEANUTS BOOK: GUARALDI’S CHORD ORGAN FUN
For this issues look at the stranger books in my collection, we dive into my small accumulation of Peanuts-themed sheet music books. Some of these books collect music from the Peanuts stage musicals or from the animated specials. Others use Peanuts illustrations on unrelated music, generally to indicate that the music has been simplified for the beginning musician. (This brings us such interesting titles as SNOOPY GOES TO BROADWAY TO SEE THE SOUND OF MUSIC.)

However, the strangest of the batch is THE CHORD ORGAN FUN BOOK, written and arranged by Vince Guaraldi, who wrote those wonderful jazz compositions for the early Peanuts animated specials. Put out in 1971, this book contains a mix of Guaraldi arrangements of old classics ("For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow", "Jingle Bells"), tunes from the Peanuts specials ("Linus & Lucy", "Oh, Good Grief!"), and new original tunes (including one or two with Peanuts themes) interspersed with insutrctions on how to play a chord organ.

What makes this book weird is the illustrations and how they are used. The book is illustrated with a mix of standard Schulz Peanuts drawings, frames from the animated specials, drawings of a dancing musical note, and pieces of non-Peanuts clip art. The illustrations are frequently captioned with phrases designed to encourage your organ playing("Linus really got excited when he learend to play D major! Wouldn’t you like to learn how, too?" "Charlie Brown’s waiting to hear you count.") Some of the art is used quite oddly (a picture of World War I Flying Ace Snoopy is aimed at a non-Schulz drawing of hot cross buns, with the caption "What in the world is Snoopy doing to those hot cross buns?"), and some just show a strange view of Peanuts ("Poor Charlie Brown! He loves Peppermint Patty so much!") How much of this is due to Vince Guaraldi himself, and how much comes from the book’s editors, I cannot say. But the arbitrary nature of it all makes it a very strange book to see.

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Well, that’s it for this week. If there’s any news, I’ll put out another issue next week. If things are very quiet, I may skip a week, working toward my goal of returning this newsletter to its originally-intended monthly status. As always, if you have any questions, suggestions, complaints or compliments, feel free to send them to me at nat@aaugh.com
–Nat Gertler proprietor http://AAUGH.com

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ONE MONTH AGO TODAY, the final Peanuts strip came out. One month ago yesterday, Sparky passed away. It’s easy at a time like this to focus on what we’ve lost, and that loss is significant. In the long run, we should strive to recall what it was we had. No one talks about Mark Twain saying "how tragic that he died!" anymore. Instead, they talk about how wonderful it was that he had been alive, and about how they enjoy the work that he left behind. In time, we’ll feel the same way about Schulz.

IN THIS ISSUE:
*BOOKS BACK IN STOCK!
*A GOLDEN CELEBRATION STILL CHEAP
*EXPANDING THE COLLECTOR’S GUIDE
*SCHULZ FANS HAVE BEEN CHARITABLE
*ODD PEANUTS BOOK: THE SOUNDS OF THE NIGHT
*WHY ORDER THROUGH AAUGH.COM?
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BOOKS BACK IN STOCK This has been a good week for Peanuts books coming back in stock. Perhaps most importantly, both of the black-and-white Andrews & McMeel collections of strips. Being A Dog Is A Full Time Job has strips from 1989, while Make Way For The King Of The Jungle has more strips from 1989 and heads into 1990.

Also, all four of the Peanuts Treasury books collection strips from the 1990s are currently available. A Kiss On The Nose Turns Anger Aside, reprinting strips from 1962-1963, is also now available (this book is a reprint of the old Holt paperback You Can Do It, Charlie Brown.) And the book of 1950s Snoopy strips What Makes You Think You’re Happy (previously released simply as "Snoopy") is still available.

Charlie Brown: Not Your Average Blockhead is available again. This is one of a set of three carefully-designed books focusing on different characters (the other two, about Snoopy and Lucy, are currently on Special Order or Back Ordered status.) It’s a hardcover book with a nice cover (we have a picture of the front cover on the site; the back cover is a picture of the back of Charlie Brown’s head) and special features glued-in (like cardboard panels you flip open to reveal pictures, and a valentine’s card.) This isn’t a great deal if what you really want is a bunch of strips, but it makes a nice gift item for the Charlie Brown fan.

Also available again for quick shipping is Good Grief: The Story Of Charles M. Schulz. This is the best biography of Schulz that I’ve seen, treating him as a creator and a fully rounded person. It was produced with Schulz’s cooperation. First published in 1989, it was updated with a new chapter in 1995.

All of these books can be ordered by clicking on them on the front page of http://AAUGH.com
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A GOLDEN CELEBRATION STILL CHEAP
Since the beautiful hardcover Peanuts: A Golden Celebration is spending a second week on the best seller chart, we still have it available for half off. At $22.50, this is probably the best bargain we have on the site. It will be at this price through Thursday at least; I can’t promise how long after that the price will stay this low. (I can’t predict the best-seller list, sorry.)
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EXPANDING THE COLLECTORS GUIDE
I’ve added a new page to the AAUGH.com Peanuts book collector’s guide. This page takes a look at books that were published in Britain but not in the U.S. The page is still pretty rough; I’m gathering what information I can on it, but I just don’t know as much about British books as I do about the U.S. editions. Expect to see this page expanding as I get more information (and more books! A friendly wave to the newsletter subscriber in South Africa who is helping hook me up with some of the British books I don’t have!)

I’ve got some additional expansions to the guide already in the works.
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SCHULZ FANS HAVE BEEN CHARITABLE
I recently got a letter from Canine Companions For Independence, one of Sparky’s favorite charities, thanking me for a contribution that I had made in his name. Now here’s the interesting thing: it was clearly a form letter aimed at people who had contributed in Schulz’s name. That’s a good sign that they’re getting a lot of such contributions. For information on donating to some of the charities that Schulz supported, check out the AAUGH.com Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list.
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ODD PEANUTS BOOK: THE SOUNDS OF THE NIGHT
In this issue’s look at odd Peanuts books from my personal collection, we find an interesting little strip reprint book published by Determined Productions in 1970. It’s part of a small series of hardback strip reprints, each 6 inches high and 4 inches wide. What makes this book odd? Well, first comes the strange title: It’s Fun To Lie Here And Listen To The Sounds Of The Night!, which is appropriate because the whole book is nothing but strips about star-gazing. Next is the color scheme: rather than printing the strips in black-and-white, they’re in black-and-blue, with purple edging! Then there is the layout of the strips; each strip is published across a two-page spread, two panels per page, and when you first open it it’s not clear what order you read the panels in. If you’re looking at the cartoon on pages 6 and 7, for example, you could read both panels on page 6 followed by both panels on page 7…
but you’d be wrong. The right way to read it is to read the top panel on page 6, then the top panel on page 7, then back to page 6 for the bottom panel, and finally the bottom panel on page 7. Just to keep this even more confusing is that the first couple strips actually still make sense if you read them in the wrong order, making it easy to assume that the wrong order is actually the right one!
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WHY ORDER THROUGH AAUGH.COM?
Last week, someone asked me why folks should order through AAUGH.com. After all, since Amazon.com actually processes the order, why not order directly from them. Other folks rushed to my defense, but it was a fair question, and one that I was glad to answer.

First off, finding the Peanuts book, video, or CD you want is easier on AAUGH.com. We *know* Peanuts books, and we’ve orgazined them and tell you what they are. If you go through Amazon.com directly, they’re not going to tell you that What Makes You Think You’re Happy is all Snoopy strips from the 1950s, or that Beware Of The Snoring Ghost is a kid’s storybook based on an actual storyline from the Peanuts strip. And no matter how many times you search for the name Schulz, Amazon.com will never point you to such obscure items as his introduction to Duane C. Barhart’s Cartooning Basics. And if you have a question about the books, I think we can safely assume that Amazon doesn’t have anyone on staff who knows Peanuts books as well as I do.

Secondly, by ordering through AAUGH.com, you support AAUGH.com. Don’t get me wrong — we’re not a charity, and we don’t think anyone owes us anything. Still, AAUGH.com provides services such as the collector’s guide and this newsletter. Whenever you order through us, we get a small cut (which comes out of Amazon’s pocket; you don’t get charged a penny more for ordering through us!) That cut helps cover the expenses of running the site, and encourages us to keep adding to it an expanding it. (And in case you’re curious, this holds true even if what you’re ordering is not in the AAUGH.com catalog. If you use our search box to find a book, or if you order another book at the same time as you’re ordering something that you clicked on from our site, we get a cut of that as well (although we get a bigger cut on things you clicked on in our catalog.)

Thirdly, it’s not true that you can get everything from Amazon.com that you can get through AAUGH.com. After all, we also have the Ultra-Discount Shop, which carries some books that Amazon no longer offers.

To sum up: AAUGH.com is easier to use, it has a larger selection of available books, we offer more help and answers to questions, and you support our guides, newsletter, and other features. All this for not one cent more than ordering through Amazon directly. Those sound like good reasons to me!
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Things are beginning to steady out in the Peanuts books world. I hope to get the newsletter back down to its originally-planned monthly schedule soon.

Once more, let me thank all those who have recently sent nice messages about the newsletter and the site, and who have shared with me memories of how Peanuts has made them who they are today. I hope the Great Pumpkin comes to visit each and everyone one of you!
–Nat Gertler proprietor http://AAUGH.com

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In this issue:
*PEANUTS: A GOLDEN CELEBRATION — 50% OFF!
*PEANUTS TREASURY AVAILABILITY
*CDs ADDED TO SHOP
*PEANUTS ANIMATION ENDING?
*ODD PEANUTS BOOK OF THE ISSUE
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PEANUTS: A GOLDEN CELEBRATION — 50% OFF! The 50th Anniversary hardcover volume Peanuts: A Golden Celebration is on this week’s New York Times best-seller list (oddly enough, it’s listed in the "Non-Fiction" category, as if Snoopy were real. Not that I’m saying he isn’t, mind you…) Because of this, we can offer it at our lowest price ever: 50% off. That’s a mere $22.50 for an oversized hardcover volume. That’s cheaper per strip than most of the standard Peanuts collections, and in this one you have added commentary and some of the Sundays in color. Of course, you probably already have a copy, but at this price, it’s time to think about your gift list!
How long is this price good for? It’ll be available at least through Thursday…
and each week the book stays on the New York Times best-seller list, the deal will be extended another week. Head over to http://AAUGH.com and click on the picture of the book cover to order it.

The second printing of this book does correct some errors that popped up in the first, where some strips were accidentally included twice.
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PEANUTS TREASURY AVAILABILITY Effort has apparently gone into trying to keep the Peanuts Treasury books (reprints of strips from the 1990s) available, but demand continues to wipe away supplies. They seem to be reprinting them in a cycle. As of today, The World Is Full Of Mondays has returned to the available list, and Now That’s Profound, Charlie Brown stays on.
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CDs ADDED TO SHOP We’ve added a couple of additional music CDs to the shop. These aren’t new releases, just things that we had not listed previously: JOE COOL’S BLUES is by Wynton and Ellis Marsalis. It contains the music that they created for the Wright Brothers episode of This Is America, Charlie Brown. SCHROEDER’S GREATEST HITS is a collection of short classical pieces from various composers; Beethoven of course, but also Chopin, Mozart, Schubert, and more. It also has a rendition of "Linus And Lucy" (the Peanuts theme) on it. Both of these disks are on the music page of AAUGH.com
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PEANUTS ANIMATION ENDING? It has been reported that Schulz’s heirs are leaning against allowing any new animation projects to begin, now that Sparky’s not their to plan and approve them. They may consider allowing work that is directly derived from storylines in the strips, but even that is unlikely.

What does that mean we have left? Well, in addition to the upcoming 50th anniversary special (which may have some new animated segments, but is basically a recap and history show), there will be a new animated special later this year, called IT’S THE PIED PIPER, CHARLIE BROWN. This won’t be going to TV; it will be direct-to-video. We’ll let everyone know when it’s available. (If you’ve only got your Peanuts animation from television, then you missed IT WAS THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER, CHARLIE BROWN, which also went directly to video, and is available on our video page.)

Schulz had plotted out one additional animated special, about playing marbles. It is uncertain whether that one will be completed.
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ODD PEANUTS BOOK OF THE ISSUE This issue’s odd book from Peanuts history is strange because it’s an odd special topic to apply the Peanuts characters to. CHARLIE BROWN’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENERGY is an alphabetically-organized guide to the world of energy sources, aimed at kids. Released in 1982, this seems to lend its existence to the energy consciousness of the late 1970s. This book was released by Random House, and is a relative of their five-book series CHARLIE BROWN’S SUPER BOOKS OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. The art is repurposed Peanuts character drawings with added (non-Schulz) material, so we get to see Peanuts illustrations for the definition of OPEC and Gasohol, or pictures of Snoopy’s doghouse with solar panels. We get to see Pig Pen writing "The clean air act is a good thing because ifthe air is clean we kids won’t have to bathe so much." This one is indeed a hoot. It’s also long out of print.

Anybody else have any favorite odd Peanuts books in their collection?
As always, I’m eager for feedback about AAUGH.com, the newsletter, or your recent Peanuts purchases. You can reach me at nat@aaugh.com!
–Nat Gertler proprietor http://AAUGH.com