Snoopy’s many rescues

The book that was previously listed just as Peanuts Spring Collection 2017 now has a title, Snoopy to the Rescue. It’s a good name… which is why it’s been used before. Repeatedly.

In 1991, the UK’s Ladybird Books published snoopy to the rescue (lower-case theirs), a storybook by Gordon Volke.snoopy_to_the_rescue

In 1987, Australia’s Budget Books put out volume 10 of their Snoopy Snaps series of black-and-white Peanuts strip reprint books, subtitled “Snoopy to the Rescue”.

snoopy-snaps-snoopy-to-the-rescueIn 1984, Random House put out a Snoopy to the Rescue game for the home computers of the day (Apple II, Commodore 64, and the IBM PC.)

Snoopy to the Rescue screen 4 - side 2

During the 1970s and 1980s, Fisher Price had a little movie viewer toy that ran a number of cartridges, including a 1982 issue named Snoopy to the Rescue that used animation from the TV special It’s a Mystery, Charlie Brown.

That Snoopy, he’s always available for a good rescue!

Upcoming releases
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 …

Upcoming releases
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 …

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The Peanuts books keep a-comin’

We’re getting into the period when “75th Anniversary” books should be being announced. I don’t know if either of these will be branded that way. Coming in May, 2025 is Happiness is Peanuts, which seems to be an attempt to capture the magic of the Happiness is a Warm Puppy-style …