Look, they’re all smiling

Here we have the cover for the upcoming Running Press Kids book Be Yourself! It’s a rendered color version of what might be the most-used piece of Peanuts licensing art, because it’s got all the characters and they are smiling. Which makes it less than a 100% realistic depiction of the Peanuts world, but hey, licensors like smiling!

And because I don’t feel like doing a second post tonight, I should note that that Dracula adaptation with Peanuts characters in it is available again… but they’ve up the priced from $3.75 to $4.

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Upcoming releases
A Big Box and a Test Email

Coming in October, it’s a bunch of books that you may already have, full of strips that you may already have in other books, but now it’s in a box! It’s Snoopy: A Big Box of Happiness, and it collects into single cardboard crate the full-color strip reprints Snoopy: Boogie Down! …

Upcoming releases
Coming: How to Draw Peanuts for Kids

In January, the book How to Draw Peanuts for Kids: Create Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, and the Gang will hit us, turning all kids into microSchulzes. I don’t yet know who is developing it — the author is listed as Charles M. Schulz, but the text of the blurb says merely …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
A portrait of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Also, a landscape.

Looks like we’ll be getting a couple more editions of book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas this year. One is a board book version of the 2015 Tina Gallo and Scott Jeralds adaptation that’s already been reworked before, and the other… is also a board book version of that …