Look, they’re all smiling

Here we have the cover for the upcoming Running Press Kids book Be Yourself! It’s a rendered color version of what might be the most-used piece of Peanuts licensing art, because it’s got all the characters and they are smiling. Which makes it less than a 100% realistic depiction of the Peanuts world, but hey, licensors like smiling!

And because I don’t feel like doing a second post tonight, I should note that that Dracula adaptation with Peanuts characters in it is available again… but they’ve up the priced from $3.75 to $4.

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