Peanuts 65th anniversary book #1

For those of you certain that every possible Peanuts book had already come out, and that no new books were possible for next year, you can relax. The world is not about to end…. because it has already been announced that 65 Years of Snoopy, a 196 page paperback, will be heading to your hands January 15th, 2015..

(Really, I don’t think you have anything to worry about; my money says that 2015 will set a record for the number of Peanuts books released.)

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