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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Here’s the cover for this September’s Peanuts: Friends Forever, a new, full-color strip collection (of old strips, naturally!) 160 pages of Peanutsy Peanuts! And it’s got Snoopy in it! They shoulda called it Snoopy and Friends…

The next book in my recent shipment from Japan, Fun English with Snoopy, is (obviously) another English language textbook. This one is a workbook populated by strips from 1990 and 1991, with sections for students to demonstrate their English comprehension by translating the strip’s text into Japanese, as well as answering …

Continuing our look at Japanese English language education books, we have A Peanuts Book Special: Let’s Speak English With Snoopy!, which is similar to the volume I discussed earlier: an English language strip, with Japanese translation on the outside, followed by discussion of some of the idiomatic or uncommon language used. …

Yes, I’m finally getting back around to documenting my shipment of Japanese Peanuts books. This isn’t the first time I’ve ordered lot of such books from Japan. Last time, I realized later that I’d ordered a large portion of cookbooks. This time, most of my order ended up being language …