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Coming out on the same day in December are two board books, one named A Best Friend for Woodstock, and the other, A Best Friend for Snoopy. Is this a coincidence? Or are they linked somehow? Could it be that they go together… that it turns out that the unnamed best friend in both cases is the same person, and thus it all turns into some hideously jealous friendship triangle, with crying and repercussions? Only time will tell. Well, that, or actually reading the plot summaries…boards

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Franklin on Board

While they’ve been turning a number of the many Peanuts storybooks into board books, I was not expecting this one. Yes, coming in August is a board book version of It’s Hockey Time, Franklin!, one of the few storybooks to focus on the young guy stuck with sitting adjacent to …

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Maybe this one isn’t just puffer, it’s puffEST

Hey, did you buy the Desktop Inflatable Puffer Jacket Snoopy last year? You did?? You fool! This year they’re coming out with Desktop Inflatable Puffer Jacket Snoopy (Revised Edition), which is bound to be so much better! In what way? Danged if I know, but.. revised, it’s like revision 2.0. …

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Peanuts books, they keep on coming

Peanuts books will continue to come in 2026, no matter what the politicians say! (Not that they’ve said anything about that, but I’m just generally mad at politicians at the moment.) May brings Be A Good Sport, Charlie Brown!, which is an abridged-for-board-book version of the storybook I reviewed back in …