Quick notes

  • I’ve been getting questions asking whether the new book Celebrating Peanuts: 65 Years is the same as Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years from six years ago. Yes, it is, it’s just the paperback edition.
  • AAUGH Blog reader John points to this Fantagraphics sale which has the small square book Waiting for the Great Pumpkin for a couple dollars less than Amazon at the moment, as well as various non-Peanuts books published by Fantagraphics.
  • Here’s a short Christian Broadcasting Network interview with Stephen J. Lind the upcoming book on Schulz’s spirituality, A Charlie Brown Religion (those of you getting the blog through email will probably have to click through to the page itself.)

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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 …

Discounts
Another discount book

Hot on the heels of finding a discount printing of a Peanuts strip collection at Five Below, I discover another volume there. A-Maze-ing Peanuts  was  among  their five-dollar books, and it’s original version (which has a different cover) is a $12.99 list price book. I’ve no idea if this is …

Upcoming releases
The one and only 75th anniversary book

Past Peanuts anniversaries have sometimes had several books waving the sign that this is an anniversary book, but this year, at least one book is proclaiming that it is the one and only Peanuts 75th Anniversary book. The Essential Peanuts: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time will be a slipcased …