Demand to see his AKC Purebred Registration Certificate!

PigpenboardCoolLikeSWe now have cover images for the two new board books coming in May, Messy Like Pigpen and Cool Like Snoopy. However, the bigger news is another new storybook coming in July: Snoopy for President! That’s right, the Simon Spotlight line is exploiting that thing that happens in America every four years – no ,not my brother’s birthday, but the Super Bowl of politics. Apparently, the country did not learn enough from Snoopy’s brief reign as Head Beagle. With the advantage of being a veteran of both World Wars and even the Revolutionary war, perhaps this black-and-white beagle stands a chance among the strays and mad dogs already vying for the position. Maybe this is the year American aligns itself not with a donkey or an elephant, but a dog!

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Shipping Pumpkin and Hare Krishnas

First, let me note that the Great Pumpkin Carols book which I talked about a while back is now available for preorder. And while I’m doing that, I’ll remind you both that when you preorder, Amazon will give you the lowest price they list the book for between now and when …

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Peanuts books all a-board!

The mail brought two new Peanuts board books this week, and the web offered up images of another, so I guess that’s the theme for the day. Cheering You On, Charlie Brown looks first at how Charlie Brown has a lot of difficulty in life, but then at how he …

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Great Pumpkin Carols are coming

I have noted before that there seems to be a fair bit of lasting affection out there for The Peanuts Book of Pumpkin Carols, a booklet of Halloween-related lyrics for famed tunes that Hallmark put out in the 1960s and redesigned and reissued a few times. It’s clear that Chronicle Books …