Good and better news on the Collectable Peanuts boxed set

Remember that boxed set of the new printings of Happiness is a Warm Puppy and seven other gift books that I mentioned recently? Remember how the question was whether it was $49.95 or $39.95? The good news is that it’s $39.95. The better news that you can preorder it now for $26.37 with free shipping in the US. Better still, you don’t get eight books, you get nine – they’re throwing in The Peanuts Cookbook, which has not been among the recently-reissued set. And to make it even better: the box is kinda cool!

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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 …

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The one and only 75th anniversary book

Past Peanuts anniversaries have sometimes had several books waving the sign that this is an anniversary book, but this year, at least one book is proclaiming that it is the one and only Peanuts 75th Anniversary book. The Essential Peanuts: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time will be a slipcased …

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Every Sunday comes around again

Shipping this September (or so they say) is the first volume of the paperback rerelease of Peanuts Every Sunday, the series which reprints the Sunday strips for the entire run of the strip, in color. The solicitation doesn’t appear to have the dimensions on it, so I don’t know if …