Animated Peanuts

What filmstrips there are

Yes, yes, another post on Charlie Brown’s Career Education Program, the filmstrip series that was underwritten by your tax dollars… at least, if you were paying federal taxes in the US in the late 1970s. According the booklets, these were underwritten by a grant from the  U.S. Office of Education, …

Animated Peanuts

It’s Your Hobby, Charlie Brown

I’ve been going through the filmstrips that I received this weekend, checking some of the details (turns out I’m missing one filmstrip that I have a teacher’s guide for, and have doubles of another strip), and digging into one of them. Well, I cheated on that a bit; I haven’t dug …

Classic finds

What was in Nat’s box

I mentioned yesterday that I’d received a box, and that I anticipated what was inside making me a very happy Peanuts collector boy. And boy, it did! In the past, I’ve discussed Charlie Brown’s Career Education Program, a series of film strips from 1979. I even showed you some scans …

Nat news

Nat gets a package

This box, if it has what it’s supposed to have in it, is going to make Peanuts collector Nat very happy. I consider it a real score. So I’ll open it and show it to you… Tomorrow.

Upcoming releases

Peanuts and Popcorn on Ice

Ah, there’s another Peanuts book coming up in that Popcorn Reader series for beginning English reader. It’s The Ice-Skating Competition, This one is based on the strip story where Peppermint Patty’s preparing for a skating contest, with Snoopy as her coach. Shipping in June, it’s available for preorder now.

Upcoming releases

The Great Pumpkin comes in May next year

Simon Spotlight (which is Simon and Schuster’s kids licensing line) is unleashing a lot of books in May, aimed at the younger crowd… including two with apparent Halloween themes: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown You’ve Got a Rock, Charlie Brown! Meet the Peanuts Gang!: With Fun Facts, Trivia, Comics, …

New releases

Contrasting holidays

I recently got the latest two of Fantagraphics small square themed strip reprints, Waiting for the Great Pumpkin and Snoopy’s Thanksgiving. What I find interesting is how different two books designed to be basically the same can be. They both reprint strips in the same format, generally one daily strip on …

Upcoming releases

The newest oldest Peanuts books

Here’s one (well, two) I wasn’t expecting: in August, British publisher Titan Books will reprint Peanuts and More Peanuts, the first two Peanuts books that were published, collecting strips from the first half of the 1950s. As far as I know, this is the first time that More Peanuts has been published in …

Upcoming releases

Peanuts and Popcorn: A Crackerjack Combination

Coming in June is Snoopy and Friends, a part of Scholastic’s Popcorn Readers series – these are books aimed at those just learning to read English. The book has two stories in it built around strip storylines, and it looks like its the one where Schroeder gets his piano stuck in a kite-eating …

Schulz/Peanuts news

Happy 64th anniversary to Good Ol’ Charlie Brown

For today’s 64th anniversary of Peanuts, the website of Time magazine takes a look at the current exhibit at the Schulz Museum.