The last Wendys cover, and the unreliability of elves

When my elf at Wendy’s told me that the last book would be called “Best Friends“, I guessed “the cover has Snoopy and Woodstock, right?” “No,” she assured me, “Snoopy and Charlie Brown”. Well… ha!

All three of them! So maybe this is finally the chronicling of the long-overlooked camaraderie between Charlie Brown and Woodstock!

Anyway,  the book is officially released today, but odds are it will be a few days until you see it in your local sandwich shop. If they have the sign up promoting Toys R Us toys in their Kid’s Meals, then they’ll probably have copies of this on  hand.

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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 …