a blog post with a special guest appearance

Well, day one of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is over. Things are going well. And I sold one copy of The Peanuts Collection to a very special guest:

Recognize that boy? No? Of course you wouldn’t. But if he spoke, you might.

Young Gabe is the current performer portraying Schroeder. You can hear him in the Snoopy’s Street Fair game, and in recent Met Life TV ads.

If you want to know more about Gabe, check out his website!

Photo courtesy of his mother.

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