Upcoming releases

An additional Great American Adventure

The three history-oriented storybooks in the Peanuts Great American Adventure series that were one supposed to come out this year have been sliding all over the schedule; at the moment, one is now supposed to be landing in January with the other two in June. But add to that June …

New releases

Scamp Snoopy

Today’s dive into the “not THAT Snoopy” pile is the Kindle e-book for Scamp Snoopy (The Hooded Rodentia). This Snoopy is a black and white critter, but a rat rather than a beagle. Apparently, this is the true story of one of a pet belonging to the author, one Lolita Patricia …

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He’s or a hero

For those expressing concern over the opening panel on this announced cover for The Complete Peanuts volume 5 paperback: Fantagraphics is aware of the error in the text and will be correcting it before the book is actually printed.

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More covers

Sometimes, I struggle trying to meet my goal of one blog post a day… but these days, the problem is that I’m trying to keep it not above two, but there is so much happening! As I type this on Tuesday, I’m waiting for seven new Peanuts books to come in …

New releases

Only What’s Necessary

The sensibility of Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, the new book from designer Chip Kidd and photographer Geoff Spear, will seem very familiar to folks who bought Kidd’s earlier Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz. It displays Peanuts work not as it was meant to …

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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 …