So the other day, we had a “French book day” here at the AAUGH.com skyscraper, with two separate shipments of French books arriving, each representing some triumph.

Back in 1968, Hallmark issued a cool little quartet of strip collections called The Peanuts Philosophers (soon to be reprinted, as it happens), and matched it with Spanish, Latin, and French sets for the US market, all translated by the famed (well, famed for a linguist) Mario Pei. For some reason, the French books have been particularly elusive to me, so I was happy to score not only the complete set, but the boxed set version.

The other shipment was my copies of Les Jeunes Selon Schulz, the French edition of Schulz’s Youth, the book I published presenting Schulz’s single-panel cartoons for the Christian press. This is the first foreign language edition to arrive, although copies of the Italian edition should now be headed my way, and I expect the Spanish edition to be out later in the year. The French publisher, Vertige Graphic, produced a good, solid hardcover.

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