Peanuts are Golden… Books

The Golden Books line is putting out three Peanuts volumes in September. Two of them are reprints of (or at least have the same title as) Little Golden Books issued in the 1980s: Let’s Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown  and Where’s Woodstock. The new title, Meet the Peanuts Gang, will have to be treated carefully by collectors and book dealers alike, because another book with that title is being issued in May. (The hardcore collector may also know of a 1960s British strip collection by that title as well.)

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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 …