Lotsa new book coming

Upcoming releases

Okay, normally I’d take this bunch of new book announcements for the fall and cover releases and break it into several posts, but I feel like getting this out of the way.

  • We have a cover… well, a box… for the A Charlie Brown Christmas Book and Tree and Music kit.
  • Snoopy Flies to the Rescue! is a “Steer-the-Story” book, which means it has a steering wheel built into the cover, as well as liftable flaps and a single pop-up. Art by the mighty Robert Pope. Comes in August
  • Snoopy’s Happy Tales! is one of those books where they take five of the existing storybooks and put them into a single hardcover. In this case, it has Snoopy Goes to School, Snoopy Takes Off!, Shoot for the Moon, Snoopy!, Best Friend for Snoopy, and Woodstock’s First Flight!
  • Nest Friends is another adaptation of a story from the Apple TV+ animated Peanuts series.
  • That book of Peanuts mazes by Mazetoons creator (and frequent Schulz Museum guest) Joe Wos has a name – A-Maze-Ing Peanuts – and a release date in September.
  • And if you want a lot of Peanuts stories, Countdown to Christmas! should deliver that to you, with 25 tales packed into 64 pages, making it like an advent calendar of storytelling.

And by the way, if you want to know how the whack-a-mole against bootleg Peanuts Kindle books are going, the reupload that I told you about a couple days ago are already deleted…. and new editions are already up, this time by authors Marry V Chapman and Aimee D Morrell replacing Dolores J Douglas and Celia D Lennon. How many rounds of this will they go through before someone either finds a way to stop it or gives up?

Meanwhile, John Ragin Jr., the author of blank notebooks, used a curiously decapitated Charlie Brown on the cover to a number of them. I expect that the NFL team logos on these are just as licensed as the Peanuts characters are! (Even on the one that uses the already-retired name and logo of the Washington Football Team.)

Upcoming releases
The Return of What’s Necessary

Coming in April is a reissue of Only What’s Necessary, Chip Kidd’s second book on the art of Peanuts, reissued for the 75th anniversary of the strip. (My review of the original 2015 edition is here.) For those keeping track, this is the third cover for this book. Here are the …

Upcoming releases
Covers to coming things

It’s that time when all the computer systems update and suddenly we’re seeing covers t0o some of the books that are rolling down the road toward us. The big one in this batch is probably Snoopy: The Story of My Life, which is the Cartoon Art Museum’s Andrew Farago ghosting …

Upcoming releases
2025 in Peanuts

Happy New Year, all you AAUGH Blog Readers! 2025 has come, like it or not, and it brings with it the 75th anniversary of Peanuts! Now, we’ve seen at least some attempts to play off 0f the big anniversary year since at least last summer, more than a full year …