Barbecue Book from Beyond the Grave!

In the “you can’t believe everything you see in a catalog” department: Simon and Schuster is listing a December release for a new book by Charles M. Schulz: Celebrating America: The Ultimate Guide to America’s 4 Regional Styles of ‘Cue.

Alas, it does not appear to be the case that Sparky is reaching out from the spirit realm to inform us about just what it is this nation slathers on its ribs. This is almost certainly a messed-up listing for the new paperback edition of Dotty Griffith’s Celebrating Barbecue: The Ultimate Guide to America’s 4 Regional Styles of ‘Cue.

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book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
A portrait of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Also, a landscape.

Looks like we’ll be getting a couple more editions of book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas this year. One is a board book version of the 2015 Tina Gallo and Scott Jeralds adaptation that’s already been reworked before, and the other… is also a board book version of that …

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The one and only 75th anniversary book

Past Peanuts anniversaries have sometimes had several books waving the sign that this is an anniversary book, but this year, at least one book is proclaiming that it is the one and only Peanuts 75th Anniversary book. The Essential Peanuts: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time will be a slipcased …

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Every Sunday comes around again

Shipping this September (or so they say) is the first volume of the paperback rerelease of Peanuts Every Sunday, the series which reprints the Sunday strips for the entire run of the strip, in color. The solicitation doesn’t appear to have the dimensions on it, so I don’t know if …