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Big Book coming

I’ve been keeping my eyes peeled at Costco, where in the past two years I’ve found the first two volumes of The Big Book of Peanuts. This rework of an Italian book format puts all of the dailies from a given decade into a single hefty volume, with the 1980s and …

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Make a Trade, Charlie Brown! cover

This is the cover to the storybook Make a Trade, Charlie Brown!, which ships in December, just ready to stuff in the stocking of your level 2 readers!

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Do Your Happy Dance cover

Here’s the cover for the board book with the full-on title of Do Your Happy Dance!: Celebrate Wonderful You., which ships next March.

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Peanuts volume 6 preview

Here’s a preview of Peanuts volume 6, which hits better comic shops this week and is still available for preordering from Amazon. Of course, since this book just reprints issues 17-20 of the Boom Press/Kaboom! Peanuts comic book series, this preview is basically a post-view of the first ten pages of …

Classic finds

Beagles und Wikinger kann Deutsch sprechen.

I just stumbled across Deutsch macht Spaß!, a three year old German language textbook for English speakers that aims to make learning grammar fun by using both Peanuts strips and Hagar The Horrible strips, all translated into German, as examples. (To be clear, I don’t have a copy of this on …

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Foreign Kindle editions

One of the interesting things about ebooks is that they break down one of the two barriers to international distribution – an ebook generally costs nothing to send across national lines. (The other limitation is contractual; book contracts often limit the territories in which a book can be sold.) We’re …

New releases

Unwrapping 2: Unwrapped to the Extreme!

Following up on yesterday’s post, I’m now finishing up the unwrapping of the new Hallmark book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas and getting down to its chewy nougat center, the book itself. Peeling off the shrinkwrap, we find two copies of a book that looks a lot like 2011’s Recordable …

Now shipping

Happiness is a Now Shipping Book

Now shipping are the redesigned-cover editions of Happiness is a Warm Puppy, Home is on Top of a Doghouse, Christmas is Together-Time, and Love is Walking Hand in Hand.

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A Charlie Brown Christmas Wrapping

I ordered this year’s Hallmark edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas from their website. They offer free shipping if you’re going to pick it up at your local Hallmark store. The shopcalled me today, and I headed over to pick it up. The counter lady had to go in the back to …

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You’ve heard of Little Golden Books, now Little Debbie Books!

There are plenty of folks in the Peanuts book business, but now the Little Debbie snack cake company is s selling a Peanuts book through their website. Alas, it’s not a book that’s only available through them – it’s Only What’s Necessary, the upcoming art-of-Peanuts book. They’re offering it for $24.95, which …