Blockheads for Knitwits

Upcoming releases

CrochetComing in March of next year, it’s Peanuts Crochet, a book of instructions on how to crochet a dozen different Peanuts characters, packaged with the the hooks and all the materials to make three of the characters (I’m betting Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock, judging by the image.) The book is written by Kristen Rask, who did a similar book of Wizard Of Oz characters last year. It can be preordered now. (And yes, I can tell there are certain of my readers who are going to be eager to get their hands on this.)

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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 …