Cover changes

Cider Mill Press has apparently decided to design new covers for a couple of the Determined Productions Peanuts books they’re reprinting. Friends coverI Need All the Friends I Can Get has a cover image that is taken from the inside of the American edition – one that was strongly altered when reprinted in the UK, as visitors to the Museum of Odd Peanuts Books should recall. Also scoring a new cover is ChristmasChristmas is Together Time cover is Together Time.

And while I have you here, let me remind you that just a few days remain to enter our contest and win yourself a set of Italian editions of The Complete Peanuts. We have some fine entries already, but we can always use more.

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More books a-comin’ and some site news

Got a couple new Peanuts books coming in the future, as well as catching up in news about the AAUGH Blog itself. Upcoming books “Please”, “Thank you”, sharing, and all that are coming your way in Snoopy’s Book of Manners, a board book by Patti Michaels and Robert Pope (based …

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It was a stormy Dark Knight…

Coming out in December is a facsimile edition of Detective Comics issue 500, the big thick issue-versary release from 1981. Detective Comics is a series that began in 1937, although it really picked up steam in 1939, when issue 27 introduced a little character called “The Batman”. Reaching issue 500 is an achievement …

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Offboarding

I can think of a number of times that Peanuts storybooks have been converted into board books, often with some shortening and simplification. And I can think of once or twice that the stories from board books have been included inside non-board anthologies of stories. But I can’t think of …