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Glimpses at Snoopy in kids’ lives

This nice series of photos of kids around the world with their toys includes not only a Thailand boy in a “Sonopy” shirt, but cute twin girls from Zanzibar whose collection includes both Joe Cool and Skeletor.

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What to do with the gifts you got

Just a couple quick reminders: if you got an Amazon gift card, the items you buy will help support this blog if you go to Amazon using a link like this one for Snoopy thank-you notes. And if you got a Kindle, a Nook, an iPad, or just about any …

Upcoming releases

Peanuts Guide to Life cover

This is the cover to the new edition of the Peanuts Guide to Life, with the new intro by Andy Cohen, orderable now at http://AAUGH.com/to.htm?0762454326 for shipping in April.

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The last minute is here

I’ve been avoiding doing a lot of “hey, as long as you’re Christmas shopping, here are some things you might like, and by the way, I get a cut of the sales if you follow the link” posts during this shoppingest of all seasons. And, alas, this (and other things) …

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free ebook take 2

That ebook edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas that I pointed out was free on iTunes the other day? Well, it’s free for your Kindle at the moment as well. And speaking of free ebooks… A while back, I offered AAUGH Blog readers a free ebook copy of my new …

General

more on those coloring books

I pointed Rich Johnston (of the website Bleeding Cool) toward the various coloring books being produced by the person who made that apparently unauthorized Peanuts volume, and he covers it here. New titles are still appearing, including some Beatles-and-Elvis coloring books! (Sniff, sniff… is that lawyers I smell?)

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Fangs!

Those old Peanuts comics from the 1950s and ’60s often had things that you would not find in the strip, as witness this image.

Discounts

free A Charlie Brown Christmas ebook

AAUGH Blog reader Jason points out that the iTunes bookstore currently has a book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas for free! This is a digital presentation of that adaptation with Tom Brannon art that Running Press has been reusing repeatedly in recent years, and is not the cool interactive …

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Peanuts for teachers, and other humans

I was doing my usual work searching out Peanuts books for us all to marvel at when I hit something I hadn’t stumbled across before: licensed Peanuts material meant for teachers and classrooms. While it’s not likely that those of us outside of school will need, say, a lesson plan …

Animated Peanuts

Useful news if you program your DVR seven years in advance

ABC has paid to keep their rights to the key Peanuts specials until 2020.