Among the recent rush of Peanuts books is Peanuts Mad Libs. For the few of you who don’t know the Mad Libs books, this is a game where one player gets the other player to give them a list of words of various types (“give me an adjective, a verb ending in “ing”, another adjective” etc.) which are then filled into blank spots in a story to create a vastly silly result, if all goes well. This book simply applies that game to short stories about the Peanuts characters – really, largely discussions of the characters (“Linus’s blanket makes him feel safe and ADJECTIVE. But this handy NOUN can also be used in other ways, such as:”) Covering Peanuts in text is always tricky, but I imagine the results will be largely as fun as the typical Mad Libs. I do wish they’d tried a few pages of plugging words into comic strips. (I experimented with basically that format in a book I created, The Most Adjective Romance Comics Ever!) Still, this is cheap fun in both senses of the term.

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