I stumbled across this Amazon listing for a print-on-demand Charlie Brown and Snoopy coloring book. Seemed a little odd for a Peanuts coloring book to be published that way. After all, there are plenty of Peanuts coloring books published through traditional means, so it doesn’t need the print-on-demand advantage in handing low print-run books.

Then I note the listing of the author as “Mrs. Beatrice Harrison“, which would be an uncommon way of listing the author on anything, and particularly odd on a Peanuts-related item like this, which would normally be credited to Schulz. So I clicked through on the author name, and found that she has been quite a busy author this month, producing coloring books and picture books on a host of licensed products – various Disney properties, Hot Wheels, Garfield, Simpsons, Yogi Bear, both Marvel and DC superheroes, and so forth. Of the ten customer reviews her books have gotten, there are eight 1-star reviews (on a scale of 1 to 5), one 2-star, and one 5-star (reviewing a Kindle edition).

I would be very surprised if Mrs. Harrison has appropriately licensed this material…

I’ve pointed a couple of the rightsholders toward these. We’ll see how long they’re available for.

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