Continuing our look at Japanese English language education books, we have A Peanuts Book Special: Let’s Speak English With Snoopy!, which is similar to the volume I discussed earlier: an English language strip, with Japanese translation on the outside, followed by discussion of some of the idiomatic or uncommon language used. The book is broken up into four parts, from “First Step: Let’s learn basic phrases in English to start conversations together with Snoopy and PEANUTS GANG” to “Fourth Step: Let’s learn phrases that would make you sound skilled in English from conversations of PEANUTS.” (Both the capitalization and the awkward language use is theirs.)

The strips in this book are all from the final quarter of the strip’s run. They even give you the date in small numbers over the strips, which are always on the left-hand pages. (The numbers that the left-hand page doesn’t have is the page numbers; the right-hand page will have 048_049 to cover the numbers for both pages.)

This 2006 book is published by Kadokawa, who have published a lot of other Peanuts books. In the back of the book, they list 48 of them, mostly strip collections but also things from cookbook to a dictionary.

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