The “new” Schulz bio

The latest in the string of bios-aimed-to-stuff-school-library-shelves is now shipping, with the imaginative title Charles Schulz, part of the “Basic Biographies” series.

Only, it may not really be a new biography. I was thrown off by the fact that someone who wrote years ago as “Cynthia Fitterer Klingel” is actually the same person now credited as “Cynthia Amoroso”.  But with the same two authors and the same publisher, this is likely a reprint of the book Charles Schulz, part of the Wonder Books Level 2 Biographies series. And that was a particularly poor little volume; I don’t mind low word-count books for kids, but if you’re going to do that, at least get the words correct. You should be able to write 200 words on a topic without, say, apparently combining Schulz’s first and second wives into a single person.

I’m tempted to buy a copy of this new book just to see if they’ve fixed this. But I don’t feel like paying twenty-some bucks for the privilege; this is one case where I may just wait for a used volume.

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If you love Schulz, but English, not so much…

Just out in Japan is the Japanese edition of Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, the Eisner Award-winning, Schulz Museum-published heavily illustrated book co-written by curator Benjamin L. Clark and myself! And yes, it can be shipped to the States… although it …

A Charlie Brown Christmas
A quote unquote requote book on A Charlie Brown Christmas

How can you tell that the new book “A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Timeless Tale of Joy and Meaning”: Unwrapping the True Spirit of the Holiday Season with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts Gang” is truly an innovative work? It’s the quotation marks in the title.  Not constrained by …

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Snoopy’s Book Café

Peanuts collector Lisa, who had been showing all her finds from a recent trip to Japan, started showing off one of the Re-Ment sets of little kits that combine to make a diorama. They do lovely work, but Peanuts statuary is not what I collect, and besides, these are Japanese …