Who says Christmas comes but once a year?

Having already announced this year’s new book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas coming from Simon Spotlight (that link is for the Kindle edition, I don’t see one showing up for print yet), I am pleased to announced that there will also be a new edition coming from Running Press Kids. I presume this will be the same adaptation with the Tom Brannon art stylings that Running Press has been using for a while now, but they’re doing a deluxe edition – a slipcase, one of those built-in bookmark ribbons, and a sticker sheet. It is, after all, the 50th anniversary of the special.

Also coming up: the Peanuts Holiday Wisdom box set, including the separately-available books Be Awesome, Be Thankful, and Be Joyful.

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Upcoming releases
A Big Box and a Test Email

Coming in October, it’s a bunch of books that you may already have, full of strips that you may already have in other books, but now it’s in a box! It’s Snoopy: A Big Box of Happiness, and it collects into single cardboard crate the full-color strip reprints Snoopy: Boogie Down! …

Upcoming releases
Coming: How to Draw Peanuts for Kids

In January, the book How to Draw Peanuts for Kids: Create Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, and the Gang will hit us, turning all kids into microSchulzes. I don’t yet know who is developing it — the author is listed as Charles M. Schulz, but the text of the blurb says merely …

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 …