Yet another Schulz bio for kids!

It seems like Sparky has turned into quite a popular topic for books aimed at kids library. Next up, this January, is a new such volume in the First Biographies line. Let’s hope that author Cheryl Carlson hits the mark better than some of the lesser shelf-fillers that have come out. (I really wouldn’t worry too much about hte fact that Schulz’s name is misspelled in the title of the Amazon.com entry. That’s likely something that happened in the magical computer databasing of this.)

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Shipping Pumpkin and Hare Krishnas

First, let me note that theĀ Great Pumpkin Carols book which I talked about a while back is now available for preorder. And while I’m doing that, I’ll remind you both that when you preorder, Amazon will give you the lowest price they list the book for between now and when …

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Peanuts books all a-board!

The mail brought two new Peanuts board books this week, and the web offered up images of another, so I guess that’s the theme for the day. Cheering You On, Charlie Brown looks first at how Charlie Brown has a lot of difficulty in life, but then at how he …

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Great Pumpkin Carols are coming

I have noted before that there seems to be a fair bit of lasting affection out there forĀ The Peanuts Book of Pumpkin Carols, a booklet of Halloween-related lyrics for famed tunes that Hallmark put out in the 1960s and redesigned and reissued a few times. It’s clear that Chronicle Books …