2009’s Great Pumpkin, 2010 edition

Hallmark edition
Hallmark edition

Last year I took a look at a “Special Hallmark Edition” book adaptation of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. As I theorized then, this year’s Running Press edition appears to be the same adaptation, but with some of the differences which we saw between the Hallmark and Running Press editions of A Charlie Brown Christmas – the Running Press edition is larger, and has a larger (and in this case different) cover image.

As to whether there’s any change in the art, or if there is better paper as there was for the Christmas book, I really cannot say. I’m cheating here, I’m just going off of the info on the Amazon entry for the book. While the book is now shipping, I try to buy every Peanuts book, but not every edition. (And by the way, don’t bother trying to use Amazon’s Look Inside This Book feature to figure out if it’s using the same art – that feature will pop up a copy of the 2001 paperback edition instead.) When I do get a copy in my hands, I’ll check if there’s any basic change in the art.

Is it just me, or does the Running Press edition star Linus The Raccoon?
Is it just me, or does the Running Press edition star Linus The Raccoon?

Added later: apparently, I was wrong. This is a new adaptation!

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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 …