I want my license plate
The fine folks in the California government (specifically the California Natural Resources Agency) asked me to help them encourage Californians to order one of the Snoopy license plates – they’ve got orders for over 5,500, so they have less than 2000 to go to hit that magic 7,500 number where the plate …
An apology
The blog’s been a little dry lately. Sure, I try to put up what I hope are interesting odd things like the piece on the person who provided Lucy’s drawing for Snoopy and “It Was a Dark and Stormy Night”, or yukking it up a bit about the plethora of the …
Snoopy Amigurumi Pattern
Just up for you Kindle users is a Snoopy Amigurumi Pattern, For those unfamiliar with “amigurumi,” its the art of crocheting critters. This is four bucks for one pattern… but if this stuff interests you, remember the Peanuts Crochet Kit, which has a bunch of patterns plus some supplies.
Christmas cover
At right is the cover for The Peanuts Guide to Christmas, which is a British-only book coming out for this coming holiday season. And below is the cover for The Bumper Book of Peanuts, a 400 page collection of strips from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
The Ice-Skating Competition
I got the second of the Popcorn ELT Readers, the British books for beginning English learners, today, and pretty much my review of the previous one applies to The Ice-Skating Competition. The big difference here is that instead of telling several tales, this book tells one long (well, long for …
Peanuts Hide-and-Seek goes hiding, and sticker book
Here’s a picture of the Peanuts sticker-and-a-doghouse kit, coming out in September, as a Peanuts Movie item. Meanwhile, Amazon is telling me that it tried and tried and just couldn’t get a copy of My First Peanuts: Hide and Seek, so it’s giving up. Which is a surprise, because the book …
The Complete Peanuts 25 will be better than you think!
For a while, I’ve been fielding inquiries about what The Complete Peanuts 1999-2000 was going to be like. After all, Schulz only did a handful of strips for 2000, which means that they had about half the content of the previous volumes. Was it going to be a thin book, or …
Easter is a-comin’… eventually
So I’ve got a new batch of upcoming Simon Spotlight (that’s kiddy storybooks) titles: Snoopy and Woodstock’s Great Adventure ships in December. This one is adapted by Lauren Forte with art by Scott Jeralds. So, apparently, does Make a Trade, Charlie Brown (not to be confused with a storybook of a decade …
Review of Snoopy and Friends (take 1)
Well, something happened that should happen a couple more times this year: I received a book titled Snoopy and Friends. This one is for the UK market, and is aimed at youngsters just learning English… well, it’s a Level 2, so it’s youngsters just learning a little more English. This full-color …
The Complete Peanuts 1995-1996
When I received my provided-by-the-publisher reviewer copy of The Complete Peanuts 1995-1996, I knew instantly what I really wanted to get out of it. I was reminded by the cover blurb that said Introduction by RiffTrax MST3K, which may sound like arglebargle to many of you, but to me had me zooming for …