Quilty Pleasures, Peanuts style
Coming in January is Peanuts Quilted Celebration, another one for all you crafty folk out there. It has applique designs! A CD-ROM! A foreword by Jeannie Schulz! All brought to you by the American Quilter’s Society! Am I gonna preorder a copy of this one? Of course I am! Am I going …
Charlie Brown Christmas cloth book
I received my Charlie Brown Christmas cloth book panels from Joann.com. These are, as I noted, fabric panels with pages to cut out and sew together to make a cloth book. This is a short edition, a mere 8 pages including cover. It’s derived from the Tom Brannon-illustrated Running Press …
Cookie cutter conundrum
Amazon has let me know that the Peanuts Christmas Cookie Set of three cookie cutters and a recipe book has been pushed back until November… and given how much this product has been pushed back (it was originally supposed to be a 2013 release), I’m not sure that I trust …
that Halloween Peanuts comic
I just got my order of a couple hundred comic books to give away to trick-or-treaters (yes, I get somewhere in the three figures of young visitors each year. Yipe!) including a goodly pile of the Boom! Studios Halloween Fright Fest 2014 comic. It’s got an Adventure Time story and a Fraggle Rock …
those 500 new Peanuts shorts
The 500 new short Peanuts animations being created by Normaal in France have been getting some attention of late. There are at least a couple of examples out there, floating around in the wild; I’m not going to link to them here because they appear to be unauthorized. But this …
Adding insult to injury to Peanuts books
In the time between when I web-ordered my A Charlie Brown Christmas book fabric panels and when they will presumable arrive, the JoAnn Fabric website first ran out of panels, then lowered the price by another $2.50 per panel. If I was all out of them, I’d only charge a nickel …
I cover covers
Here are the covers for some of next year’s kiddie books. (Click covers to go preorder.)
A thing I will, in later years, regret not buying
The original Schulz cover art for a Peanuts strip collection.
Peanuts Guides to Life
The new British series Peanuts Guide to Life is a nice one. This is a series of character-oriented, themed strip collections. We get: The Genius of Charlie Brown Life Lessons from Lucy The Philosophy of Snoopy The Wisdom of Woodstock. These are hardcovers, no dust jackets, but with golden highlights on …
Big Beautiful Book
What do you get for the Peanuts fan who has everything? Bigger bookshelves. I was sitting here, thinking how hectic I am for the next few days, who I’ve not time for anything, when the Peanuts Book Fairy drove his big brown box truck up and dropped off two books. …