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A thing I will, in later years, regret not buying

The original Schulz cover art for a Peanuts strip collection.

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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 …

New releases

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. …

Comic book Peanuts

Quick little notes

Now shipping are: volume 2 of the paperback edition of The Complete Peanuts, the boxed set of the first two volumes in that series, and the fourth trade paperback collection of the Kaboom! Peanuts comics. (I won’t be reviewing that last, as it’s got some of my work in it. But …

Discounts

A book! An A Charlie Brown Christmas Book!

I admit, I was fretting about it. It was once again looking like it would be a year without a new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas. There were none coming through the regular book channels. We have avoided this disaster narrowly at times, with a Hallmark-only book, or something …

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.