You, in a Peanuts book

“Customized” books have been around for a long time, with specialty publishers offering to insert your child’s name and sometimes some key details into a children’s book, giving them a unique item that talks about him. The publisher Sourcebooks has a line of these special-order items that add not just a name but also a photo, priced at $24.99 to $32.99. Their titles include ones starring Sesame Street fuzzball Elmo and the Berentstain Bears, and soon (I’m not sure quite when), they’ll have Peanuts titles as well.

Meanwhile, those are not the only Peanuts books that Sourcebooks is putting out. Coming in September are Cheer Up, Charlie Brown!: Getting Through Life One Laugh at a Time and Good Grief, It’s Your Birthday!: Growing Up Without Growing Old; given a press release says that the publisher will “re-package classic stories” (as well as information about format), I assume these are reprints of the books  Don’t Give Up, Charlie Brown! and Good Grief, It’s Your Birthday! that were published by Harvest House back in 2006. Both of these hardcover books are available now for preorder.

That makes ten Peanuts book releases currently announced for September. If you were afraid we were going to face a shortage of Peanuts books, consider those concerns addressed.

Upcoming releases
Destined to blow up

Puffer Jacket Snoopy is a thing… enough of a thing that I’ll be discussing an item that only barely qualifies for this blog (it comes with a book… a tiny book of stickers.) Amazon is now listing for October release a Desktop Inflatable Puffer Jacket Snoopy. It’s one of the …

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The Return of What’s Necessary

Coming in April is a reissue of Only What’s Necessary, Chip Kidd’s second book on the art of Peanuts, reissued for the 75th anniversary of the strip. (My review of the original 2015 edition is here.) For those keeping track, this is the third cover for this book. Here are the …

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Covers to coming things

It’s that time when all the computer systems update and suddenly we’re seeing covers t0o some of the books that are rolling down the road toward us. The big one in this batch is probably Snoopy: The Story of My Life, which is the Cartoon Art Museum’s Andrew Farago ghosting …