Finally, someone addresses the looming Peanuts book shortage
Cider Mill Press is once again reissuing some of those sweet little Determined Productions gift books, with four of them being released in October: Happiness is a Warm Puppy Love is Walking Hand in Hand Home is On Top of a Dog House Christmas Is Together-Time The numbering is Cider …
Peanuts are Golden… Books
The Golden Books line is putting out three Peanuts volumes in September. Two of them are reprints of (or at least have the same title as) Little Golden Books issued in the 1980s: Let’s Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown and Where’s Woodstock. The new title, Meet the Peanuts Gang, will have to …
Coverswitch on my book
Now Amazon is showing this cover for my upcoming book The Snoopy Treasures, different from the one they were showing last month. I have no inside information that I can give you on whether this is the final version. (The title on this version is slightly different as well; it …
Two months of Sundays
You may recall when Fantagraphics announced their full color Sunday reprint series Peanuts Every Sunday that I pointed out that this could cause some confusion for collectors, as there was an old black-and-white Holt, Rinehart, and Winston collection of the same name. Well, that confusion may not just be for old …
Wormy Weather Peanuts
At the moment, Amazon is claiming that this is the cover to the Peanuts Mad Libs book coming out in October. I suspect it will be changed before release.
The Peanuts crew shows how to write right
With the help of this Japanese writing guide, I could soon learn to write Japanese. Which would be really cool. But then I would have to get another book that teaches me how to read Japanese, or I’ll have no idea what I’ll have written. The book is illustrated with …
Queen Lucy’s Tree House
Covers of upcoming books! The Peanuts Great American Adventure series! Do the clicky clicky thing if you want them!
Snoopy figure and sticker book
The avalanche of books for the end of the year has not abated, as witness The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy the Flying Ace: Figurine and Sticker Book Kit, which is one of those little boxes that comes with a figurine and a little sixteen page booklet of stickers, thus qualifying it for …
Chip Kidd’s Necessary Peanuts Book
Chip Kidd’s new book Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, as now been given a release date – October 20 – and is available for preorder. Intro by Jeff Kinney, contributions from Jeanie Schulz and the mighty Paige Braddock, and pictures, pictures, pictures!
Lose the Blanket. Take the Cannoli.
We’ve got covers for a couple of upcoming kids books. Lose the Blanket, Linus ships in October, and Happy Valentine’s Day, Charlie Brown ships in December.