Birds that Snoopy has imitated
Birds that Snoopy has imitated include: VULTURE PENGUIN FALCON
Happiness is…
Happiness is… ordering the eBay lot of Peanuts items for the one item you really want, and then only realizing on receiving the lot that that “just another copy of Happiness is a Warm Puppy” that you didn’t care about is actually the German edition, which you didn’t already have!
Peanuts Awesome Womenhood
Let me apologize for not keeping up with the blog; Peanuts books have been coming in, but I’ve been hectic with a variety of things, including some Peanuts-related work (we’re to the end of the process on my upcoming book The Snoopy Treasures), as well as life things. One of the things …
It’s a New New World, Charlie Brown
The cover for the upcoming book It’s a New World, Charlie Brown has been changed. It is now: when it was previously shown as:
A bumper crop of British books
The UK is getting some more titles not available on these shores… unless you order them shipped here, as these links will do. The Bumper Book of Peanuts (October) Hardcover of strips from the 1970s, 1980s. How to Be a Grrrl (November) by Lucy van Pelt
Kari Schuetz covers Charles Schulz (say that 5 times fast!)
It’s been a while since we got a new aimed-at-the-school-library biography of Schulz. That drought ends in August with Charles Schulz, part of the Blastoff Readers line, written by Kari Schuetz. This Level 4 reader is now available for preorder.
Peanuts cover bands unite
The previously-mentioned Peanuts Off-Model book is now being listed as Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz. Folks doing their own takes on Schulz’s characters include the very Peanuts-influenced Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons), Raina Telgemeier (I’ve been reading some of her best-selling YA graphic novels lately, like Smile and Drama), and Jeffrey …
Quilty as charged
I finally received the originally-supposed-to-come-in-January Peanuts Quilted Celebrations, a book with CD-ROM of vital files for quilting your own Peanuts materials. It has instructions for 10 different items (with an eleventh on the disk), mostly holiday items with a somewhat odd distribution (two items for St. Patty’s Day, only one …
Disappearing Peanuts books
The two upcoming Peanuts books aimed at those learning English – Snoopy and Friends and The Ice-Skating Competition – have disappeared from Amazon, but are still preorderable via a British sources (such as the links given above), which are listing a British publication location. As such, these may have to be …
Peanuts comic book 26 preview
Peanuts issue 26 hits better comic book shops on Wednesday. Here’s your preview (click each page to enlarge.)