Deluxe Pumpkin cover

Animated Peanuts

Here we have a first look at the cover to It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Deluxe Edition, the new book adaptation which will hit sincere pumpkin patches (as well as Amazon) this July (and is available for preorder now, of course.) The cover is by the ever-talented Vicki Scott, and she has appropriately given it a look that comes across as a bit more Bill Melendez than Charles Schulz. The text adaptation is by Maggie Testa, who has been doing a fair amount of work on the storybooks of late.

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