Relatively Charlie Brown

As a Peanuts book blogger, I’ve always enjoyed the category of things that look like Peanuts books but aren’t. I found two of them tonight… interestingly similar.

Who Are You Charlie Brown? a Search for Family is Wendy Brown’s search for information on her grandfather, one Charles Brown. That’s available as a print book from Zeus Publications, a bit of a vanity press operation. Meanwhile, the ebook In Search of Charlie Brown (published through Lulu, a self-publishing platform) is about a boy named Heaven who is looking for his hitherto-unknown half siblings.

Of course, our Charlie Brown was always perfectly aware of where his family was; it was Snoopy that sometimes had to go looking.

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Homer Hoopee comic strip by Rand Taylor and Phil Berube, September 1953. Share the news!

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In the past, I’ve reviewed a couple of pre-Peanuts books about dogs named Snoopy… but my latest find is just a bit different. It’s about a white kitty, and her name is Snoopy. And that’s a fact you might quickly glean from the tile: Snoopy gets a name. Which, let’s face it, …