A bumper crop of British books
The UK is getting some more titles not available on these shores… unless you order them shipped here, as these links will do. The Bumper Book of Peanuts (October) Hardcover of strips from the 1970s, 1980s. How to Be a Grrrl (November) by Lucy van Pelt
Kari Schuetz covers Charles Schulz (say that 5 times fast!)
It’s been a while since we got a new aimed-at-the-school-library biography of Schulz. That drought ends in August with Charles Schulz, part of the Blastoff Readers line, written by Kari Schuetz. This Level 4 reader is now available for preorder.
Peanuts cover bands unite
The previously-mentioned Peanuts Off-Model book is now being listed as Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz. Folks doing their own takes on Schulz’s characters include the very Peanuts-influenced Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons), Raina Telgemeier (I’ve been reading some of her best-selling YA graphic novels lately, like Smile and Drama), and Jeffrey …
Quilty as charged
I finally received the originally-supposed-to-come-in-January Peanuts Quilted Celebrations, a book with CD-ROM of vital files for quilting your own Peanuts materials. It has instructions for 10 different items (with an eleventh on the disk), mostly holiday items with a somewhat odd distribution (two items for St. Patty’s Day, only one …
Disappearing Peanuts books
The two upcoming Peanuts books aimed at those learning English – Snoopy and Friends and The Ice-Skating Competition – have disappeared from Amazon, but are still preorderable via a British sources (such as the links given above), which are listing a British publication location. As such, these may have to be …
Peanuts comic book 26 preview
Peanuts issue 26 hits better comic book shops on Wednesday. Here’s your preview (click each page to enlarge.)
Stinky Cecil
The folks who do Peanuts comic books generally don’t just do Peanuts comic books. For example, Paige Braddock, who not only works on the comics but is Creative Director over at the Schulz studio, has a new for-kids graphic novel Stinky Cecil in Operation Pond Rescue, in which nature’s creatures …
Bigger Weapon Brown
About eight years back, I reviewed Weapon Brown, a one-shot comic that collected and expanded Jason Yungbluth’s take on the Peanuts characters having grown up in a post-apocalyptic world. While I thought he did the work to find ways of combining those two realms, my review was summarized by “But not …
Snoopy for Kindling
In the midst of the swarm of Peanuts books scheduled to hit the shelves this year, there are also ebooks landing as well. Coming up in April is four Peanuts ebooks: Snoopy Master of Disguise Snoopy the Fitness Fanatic Snoopy the Legal Beagle Snoopy the Matchmaker The titles suggest strongly …
To Be Announced is announced
They’ve now announced the author of The Peanuts Movie Novelization – it’s Tracey West. Tracey is a very prolific children’s author, with lots of work on licensed character materials such as books about Lego Ninjago and Adventure Time. One of her most recent releases was one that seems a rather thankless task – …