Pumpkins of the future!

I just got caught up covering this year’s Halloween books, and it’s already time to start talking about next year’s! Baby Snoopy’s Pumpkin, a board book for the wee ones, comes out in August of aught-five.

Before that, we get The Peanuts Guide To Life from Running Press, the same folks who’ve published the recent mini hardback adaptations of the animated specials A Charlie Bronw Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. I don’t yet know what this is, although the title would suggest that it’s not an animated adaptation and the pricing would suggest it’s not a mini book.

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A box of squares

This May, Fantagraphics is collecting the various small square Peanuts books they’ve published into a new box set, Peanuts All Year Round Mini Collection. This includes: A Valentine for Charlie Brown — Valentine’s Day and romance strips Batter-Up Charlie Brown! — baseball strips Waiting for the Great Pumpkin — Halloween …

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Game Day returns

Back in 2020, Fantagraphics dropped Game Day, a boxed set of sports-themes Peanuts strip reprint paperbackss, as a Costco exclusive. Next June it’s coming back, this time in hardcover and available through the usual sources. Designed as a Father’s Day gift, it should be good for anyone who likes Peanuts …

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An unauthorized? biography

In the past, I’ve talked about the Charles Schulz biographies that are produced as part of bulk lines of biographies for school libraries, very brief, photo-heavy things meant to give kids something to write book reports about. Well ABDO, a company that has produced just such a biography in the …