Peanuts by the numbers

The listing says "cover not final", which should be obvious - they didn't even finish coloring it in!
The listing says “cover not final”, which should be obvious – they didn’t even finish coloring it in!

Book packager becker&mayer! have announced the upcoming Classic Peanuts Paint-by-Numbers Kit which includes not only five paint-by-number canvasses with stands, ten acrylic paints and a paintbrush, but also (making it relevant to this blog) a paperback book, comprised of 48 pages and seven thousand words. Priced at $16.95, the kit is not yet available for order through any source I find.

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The one and only 75th anniversary book

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Every Sunday comes around again

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Destined to blow up

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