Charlie Brown – cover-blocked again

The new Wendy’s Kids’ Meal book which started rolling out yesterday features, on its cover, Snoopy. That’s right, even for a book titled I Love Baseball, Charlie Brown gets totally Rodney Dangerfiel’d!

If your Wendy’s has the signage indicating that they have toys linked to the movie Zookeeper, then they should have this as the kids-under-3 book. If, however, they still have signs for Minute to Win It, you’ll probably have to come back on some other day.

Full review to come once I get a copy, of course.

Upcoming releases
Destined to blow up

Puffer Jacket Snoopy is a thing… enough of a thing that I’ll be discussing an item that only barely qualifies for this blog (it comes with a book… a tiny book of stickers.) Amazon is now listing for October release a Desktop Inflatable Puffer Jacket Snoopy. It’s one of the …

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The Return of What’s Necessary

Coming in April is a reissue of Only What’s Necessary, Chip Kidd’s second book on the art of Peanuts, reissued for the 75th anniversary of the strip. (My review of the original 2015 edition is here.) For those keeping track, this is the third cover for this book. Here are the …

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Covers to coming things

It’s that time when all the computer systems update and suddenly we’re seeing covers t0o some of the books that are rolling down the road toward us. The big one in this batch is probably Snoopy: The Story of My Life, which is the Cartoon Art Museum’s Andrew Farago ghosting …