German Peanuts essays

Coming soon for your Kindle is Peanuts. 100 Seiten, a look at how Peanuts reflected American society and the life of Schulz himself. Written by German essayist Joachim Kalka,  has taken the radical step of writing all the text in German, which pretty much locks me out (meine deutch ist sehr shlecht; ich habe eins yahr von deutch auf… ummm, high school.) This is part of a line of 100 Seiten (one hundred pages) books published by Reclam. Kalka is respected enough that some of his previous essay work has been translated into English; perhaps that will eventually be the case with this one as well.

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Franklin on Board

While they’ve been turning a number of the many Peanuts storybooks into board books, I was not expecting this one. Yes, coming in August is a board book version of It’s Hockey Time, Franklin!, one of the few storybooks to focus on the young guy stuck with sitting adjacent to …

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