Peanuts and Popcorn: A Crackerjack Combination

Coming in June is Snoopy and Friends, a part of Scholastic’s Popcorn Readers series – these are books aimed at those just learning to read English. The book has two stories in it built around strip storylines, and it looks like its the one where Schroeder gets his piano stuck in a kite-eating tree and a the one where Peppermint Patty attends an obedience school.

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Gilded Age Peanuts

There are many products generated as Peanuts “collectibles”. There have even been some special editions of books that would qualify, such as those leatherbound Easton Press editions. Still, I think the upcoming board book edition of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown is pushing the line a bit. The publisher …

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Crafty Peanuts books

A couple of craft-ish new books popped up on the horizon. Coming next June is a revised and expanded edition of Peanuts Cross-Stitch; where the old one had 16 patterns, this one comes with a whopping 24. At least, I assume that’s whopping. I don’t really spend time with craft books. …

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The Essential Peanuts preview

The magazine People ran a preview of The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, the upcoming Peanuts retrospective written by my bud Mark Evanier. I’ll let you head there for the content, but I am going to talk on one part of the preview pointed to me by AAUGH Blog …