Probably not the real valentine

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Amazon has posted this cover for the January 2015 release of another small hardcover strip collection from Fantagraphics, A Valentine for Charlie Brown:

ValentinesAZNow, usually I would say that this is the cover for the book… but Fantagraphics pretty regularly changes their covers from the initial solicitation, and not just in minor ways. For example, this is the cover that Amazon has been hosting for their Thanksgiving collection:
ThanksgivingAZAnd this is the cover for the same book as it recently went up at BN.com:

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A Big Box and a Test Email

Coming in October, it’s a bunch of books that you may already have, full of strips that you may already have in other books, but now it’s in a box! It’s Snoopy: A Big Box of Happiness, and it collects into single cardboard crate the full-color strip reprints Snoopy: Boogie Down! …

Upcoming releases
Coming: How to Draw Peanuts for Kids

In January, the book How to Draw Peanuts for Kids: Create Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, and the Gang will hit us, turning all kids into microSchulzes. I don’t yet know who is developing it — the author is listed as Charles M. Schulz, but the text of the blurb says merely …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
A portrait of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Also, a landscape.

Looks like we’ll be getting a couple more editions of book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas this year. One is a board book version of the 2015 Tina Gallo and Scott Jeralds adaptation that’s already been reworked before, and the other… is also a board book version of that …