The Great Pumpkin comes in May next year

Simon Spotlight (which is Simon and Schuster’s kids licensing line) is unleashing a lot of books in May, aimed at the younger crowd… including two with apparent Halloween themes:

All are preorderable now. Despite the reuse of some existing titles, I suspect these are all new; those that list artists are listing ones that I don’t think have done Peanuts books before (such as Robert Pope on You’ve Got a Rock and Time for School; he’s been doing work on the Kaboom! Peanuts comic, including my story “New Shoe Zoom”.)

Interestingly, Simon & Schuster had a listing for some of these on their own website (although without anymore information than the bare bones you’ll see on Amazon at this point), but they’re gone now.

If they’re doing Great Pumpkin, I sure hope they’re doing A Charlie Brown Christmas as well. I’m feeling withdrawal pains due to the lack of any announced new edition of Christmas this year.

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