Snoopy figure and sticker book

The avalanche of books for the end of the year has not abated, as witness The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy the Flying Ace: Figurine and Sticker Book Kit, which is one of those little boxes that comes with a figurine and a little sixteen page booklet of stickers, thus qualifying it for this blog! (Note: I’ve covered in the past how the page count effectively overstates the number of stickers in these things.)

One other minor note: the Snoopy’s Happy Day puppet book has had its release date shift from March to May, making the month rather heavily loaded with kiddie books.

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A box of squares

This May, Fantagraphics is collecting the various small square Peanuts books they’ve published into a new box set, Peanuts All Year Round Mini Collection. This includes: A Valentine for Charlie Brown — Valentine’s Day and romance strips Batter-Up Charlie Brown! — baseball strips Waiting for the Great Pumpkin — Halloween …

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Game Day returns

Back in 2020, Fantagraphics dropped Game Day, a boxed set of sports-themes Peanuts strip reprint paperbackss, as a Costco exclusive. Next June it’s coming back, this time in hardcover and available through the usual sources. Designed as a Father’s Day gift, it should be good for anyone who likes Peanuts …

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An unauthorized? biography

In the past, I’ve talked about the Charles Schulz biographies that are produced as part of bulk lines of biographies for school libraries, very brief, photo-heavy things meant to give kids something to write book reports about. Well ABDO, a company that has produced just such a biography in the …