The Final Wendys Kids Meal book is…

My inside elf tells me that the tenth and ultimate book in the Wendy’s Kid’s Meal kids-under-three Peanuts board book series is… Best Friends.

Now, this is not a completely original title, as witness the boxed figurine-and-booklet set Snoopy and Woodstock: Best Friends.

However, in this case, the friendship is not Snoopy and Woodstock. I am told that the cover actually has Snoopy and… Charlie Brown! Can it be true? Could it really be that after a run of nine CB-free covers, the lead character of Peanuts finally lands on the cover of one of these books?

I’ll believe it when I see it.

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More books a-comin’ and some site news

Got a couple new Peanuts books coming in the future, as well as catching up in news about the AAUGH Blog itself. Upcoming books “Please”, “Thank you”, sharing, and all that are coming your way in Snoopy’s Book of Manners, a board book by Patti Michaels and Robert Pope (based …

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It was a stormy Dark Knight…

Coming out in December is a facsimile edition of Detective Comics issue 500, the big thick issue-versary release from 1981. Detective Comics is a series that began in 1937, although it really picked up steam in 1939, when issue 27 introduced a little character called “The Batman”. Reaching issue 500 is an achievement …

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Offboarding

I can think of a number of times that Peanuts storybooks have been converted into board books, often with some shortening and simplification. And I can think of once or twice that the stories from board books have been included inside non-board anthologies of stories. But I can’t think of …