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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