Franklin on Board

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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 Peppermint Patty in class. No cover is available yet, and while I presume it will be based on the paperback edition‘s book cover seen here, that doesn’t always prove to be the case.

I’d ask when we get a board book with Dolores in the lead, but i suspect that will have to wait until she falls into the public domain in 2069… and likely not even then.

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More books a-comin’ and some site news

Got a couple new Peanuts books coming in the future, as well as catching up in news about the AAUGH Blog itself. Upcoming books “Please”, “Thank you”, sharing, and all that are coming your way in Snoopy’s Book of Manners, a board book by Patti Michaels and Robert Pope (based …

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It was a stormy Dark Knight…

Coming out in December is a facsimile edition of Detective Comics issue 500, the big thick issue-versary release from 1981. Detective Comics is a series that began in 1937, although it really picked up steam in 1939, when issue 27 introduced a little character called “The Batman”. Reaching issue 500 is an achievement …

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Offboarding

I can think of a number of times that Peanuts storybooks have been converted into board books, often with some shortening and simplification. And I can think of once or twice that the stories from board books have been included inside non-board anthologies of stories. But I can’t think of …