Lose the Blanket, Linus
The new Simon Spotlight kiddie book Lose the Blanket, Linus! takes the storyline where Lucy swipes and buries Linus’s blanket in an attempt to break him from the habit, and adapts it into a text (by Tina Gallo) and pictures (by my pal Robert Pope) storybook. And they make a reasonable effort, …
Where Beagles are Available
The new Snoopy graphic novel Where Beagles Dare! is available at better comic book shops (which is where I grabbed mine), and here at BN.com, but at the moment it is not available from Amazon. Why? I don’t know. But the BN.com listing still carries this summary: Charles Schulz’s Peanuts, like …
You’re Adjective, Charlie Color!
Among the recent rush of Peanuts books is Peanuts Mad Libs. For the few of you who don’t know the Mad Libs books, this is a game where one player gets the other player to give them a list of words of various types (“give me an adjective, a verb ending …
SNLtz
I was watching this weekend’s Saturday Night Live (guest host, Amy Schumer), and they opened with one of their Fox & Friends skits, which I always find worth watching…. most notably for the stream of “factual corrections” to statements made on the show that they scroll across the screen. Ya …
Hallmark does A Charlie Brown Christmas yet again
I do not yet have a copy in my grimy little hands, but Hallmark is indeed keeping with tradition by offering another book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas this year! You can order yours here. I am unsure if they are yet being sold in the Hallmark stores, but you …
Demand to see his AKC Purebred Registration Certificate!
We 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 – …
a peek at Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz
Hey, first I got a sneak peek, now I can give you one! Here’s ten pages from the upcoming book PEANUTS: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, which you can preorder by clicking on that title there. And you probably should. Even this sample shows you such cool cartoonists as …
You can be in a Peanuts book!
The plans for this were announced so far back that I was beginning to think that the project had been scuttled, but now you can buy your kids (yeah, right, your kids; me, I’ll be buying them for myself!) personalized Peanuts books. Alas, they’re not very personalized; your “child’s” name …
The piano guy and the statue guy
Had an odd experience last night during my appearance at Pasadena’s ArtNight. There was a girl, maybe 9 or so, looking through one of my books about Peanuts, and she has told me she has eight or nine “Snoopy books”. She sees a picture of Schroeder and says how she …
off-model Peanuts
I’ve got three new Peanuts books sitting here waiting for review, but with preparations for my appearance tonight at the Pasadena Library, I’ll not get to them today. But last night I by chance managed to get my hands on a copy of the upcoming Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. …