Be My Valentine books

There are two different new book adaptations of the animated special Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown out this year, both available for immediate shipping. I haven’t actually gotten my copy of the minibook adaptation yet, but I do have the kids valentine-shaped hardcover. It’s an interactive book: 10 sturdy cardboard pages with five lift-a-flaps, one of which is a pop-up. Frankly, as a quantity of entertainment for kids, that’s a little weak. But there’s nothing particularly wrong with it (well, except for the attempt to do some modeling on the color of Charlie Brown’s face, giving him a five-o’clock shadow

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The World According to Snoopy and sundry other things

I just picked up a copy of The World According to Snoopy, which was released in the UK late last year. This hardcover book, with its cover akin to a 1970s textbook, falls into the “inspirational messages” category. It’s pages are a mix of single-page displays of individual Peanuts strips (always …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
Review catchup

I apologize for the lack of reviews in a while. It’s my own fault… and the fault of that new Hallmark edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas which interacts with a stuffed animal. “That would be a great review to do as a video”, thought I. But videos take time to …

Now shipping
Little Folks now available

My publishing work, my curiosity, and my interest in the work of Charles M. Schulz are not three separate things; they all meld together in various ways. For a long time, I only knew of the newspaper comic strip Little Folks by Tack Knight because Tack’s trademark on the title kept …