My Confession
As I’ve mentioned in the past, while I try to bring you all the interesting Peanuts book information that I can, there are times that I have information that, due to professional obligations, I am not free to share. The post from last week about the Classic Peanuts Paint-By-Number Kit is …
Happiness Is Widely Copied
WARNING: This piece does include an announcement of something I’ve just published. Back when the Peanuts gift book Happiness is a Warm Puppy was published in 1962, it was huge. Not in size, it’s just about five and a half inches square, but in impact. This little thing spent forty-five weeks …
Peanuts storybooks on Kindle
Just out are Kindle editions of a couple of Peanuts storybooks: A Flying Ace Needs Lots of Root Beer and I’ve Been Traded for a Pizza?
Woodstock Master of Disguise cover
You’d think that if they were doing a book of Woodstock strips, they might put Woodstock on the cover. But no! It’s just Snoopy and Mr. Green-head Mustache-face! Woodstock: Master of Disguise comes out in April, but it can be preordered now.
A little information about Peanuts #23
The genuinely fine folks at Boom! Studios have given the world this information about November’s issue 23 of the Peanuts comic book. PEANUTS #23 Retail Price: $3.99 Authors: Charles M. Schulz & various Artists: Charles M. Schulz & various Cover Artist: Charles M. Schulz Good grief! Brand-new adventures with classic Charles M. Schulz goodness for the youngest of fans …
The puppet book is back
Snoopy’s Happy Day: a Peanuts Puppet Book, which disappeared from the schedule to be replaced by “Untitled”, is now back again and ready for preorder, to ship in June of next year. It’s a 16 page book for kids.
Blockheads for Knitwits
Coming in March of next year, it’s Peanuts Crochet, a book of instructions on how to crochet a dozen different Peanuts characters, packaged with the the hooks and all the materials to make three of the characters (I’m betting Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock, judging by the image.) The book is …
Kindlegarten
Yes, I’m taking the occasion of my eldest child’s first day of kindergarten to point out that The Complete Peanuts volumes are now available for reading on your Kindle (or through Kindle software on your computer or tablet.) This would not be my preferred method of reading these items, I’m …
Peanuts by the numbers
Book packager becker&mayer! have announced the upcoming Classic Peanuts Paint-by-Numbers Kit which includes not only five paint-by-number canvasses with stands, ten acrylic paints and a paintbrush, but also (making it relevant to this blog) a paperback book, comprised of 48 pages and seven thousand words. Priced at $16.95, the kit is …
Civic Peanuts: Erecting and Electing
Out in Needles, California, they’ve gotten licensing approval to put up a statue of Spike, Snoopy’s brother and the town’s most famous resident, in front of their new Chamber Of Commerce. But that’s nothing compared to what they may be putting up in Tennessee, where the Democratic nominee for governor …