All the Peanuts statues

For a long time, Peanuts book collectors with an interest in the Peanuts statues that blanketed St. Paul and Santa Rosa in various years had to settle for the combination auction catalog/souvenir booklets that accompanied those displays, and some of them have been hard to find. But now there’s a book in the works that will provide photographs of all of the statues, as well as articles and interviews on the statue projects.

The book is still taking shape, you won’t be able to order it soon… but you can follow it on Facebook, or on the Twitter thing at @PeanutsStatues.

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