My Confession

Package not final
Package not final

As I’ve mentioned in the past, while I try to bring you all the interesting Peanuts book information that I can, there are times that I have information that, due to professional obligations, I am not free to share. The post from last week about the Classic Peanuts Paint-By-Number Kit is a clear example of this. I talked about how the kit has materials for doing 5 paint-by-numbers, including paints and brush and stands, and that it included a 48 page book. I didn’t give you any information that couldn’t be found in the packager’s catalog. But I actually did know more about that book. A lot more.

You see, I wrote it.

Since the kit now has a listing at the website for Barnes & Noble (which, by the way, is where it will be available; this is a B&N exclusive) and since my name is on it, I am now free to announce my involvement. I can even tell you that the book, Classic Peanuts: Great Moments, takes a look at 10 popular recurring gags in Peanuts (the psychiatric booth, the Red Baron, things like that), all illustrated with example strips. The kit is available for preorder, even if the listing there is a little sparse as I type this (but it may be more populated by the time you read this; the publication date is listed as next week.)

Share the news!
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 …

Upcoming releases
The one and only 75th anniversary book

Past Peanuts anniversaries have sometimes had several books waving the sign that this is an anniversary book, but this year, at least one book is proclaiming that it is the one and only Peanuts 75th Anniversary book. The Essential Peanuts: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time will be a slipcased …

Upcoming releases
Every Sunday comes around again

Shipping this September (or so they say) is the first volume of the paperback rerelease of Peanuts Every Sunday, the series which reprints the Sunday strips for the entire run of the strip, in color. The solicitation doesn’t appear to have the dimensions on it, so I don’t know if …