I like the strip collection Lighten Up, It’s Christmas – because it’s a Christmas book with a cactus on the cover!  

Today’s entry is I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown, because not all book adaptations are of A Charlie Brown Christmas, and even the third best Peanuts Christmas special is still pretty good.

We’ve got covers for a couple of books that are coming out next February: Click on the covers to go preorder these books, or to go do other online shopping (we’re getting to the end of time when you can order with their free super-saver shipping and still get the …

The cover of  It’s Christmas, a strip reprint from 1996, is a perfect Christmas image: children and animals dancing gleefully, unaware of the giftwrapped packages that are plummeting toward their fragile heads.

Hallmark places several books on this list, and that makes sense. While they aren’t a big book publisher, if there’s two things they’re big on, they’re Peanuts and Christmas.With the title of Christmas Time With Snoopy And His Friends, a major question opens up: while Woodstock is clearly Snoopy’s friend, …

I am typing this on the new iPad I was given last night, and I am doing so in a Starbucks. Why? It is not for the coffee (I do to drink the stuff)… But because now that I have an appropriate iDevice, I want that well reviewed Charlie Brown …

All I Want For Christmas Is… is a thin hardcover book, but it’s really a greeting card at heart, meant not to buy for yourself, but to send to soemone else It’s shots of Lucy, Snoopy, Sally, and Charlie Brown writing letters to Santa Claus, and in Charlie Brown’s note …

I’ve just started exploring the On Demand features of my cable system – hadn’t realized until now that you can watch primetime shows from the past month for free. That’ll be very useful. But I’m amused by the way they include Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown there. I …

I like the coloring book Christmas Joy Is… because it doesn’t just settle for giving kids stock images to color, as so many coloring books these days do. It’s a thing to be read; in this case, if it wasn’t a coloring book, it would be a gift book on …

Sally’s Christmas Miracle is a kids’ storybook adapted from a strip story – the one where Sally manages to score a Christmas tree. The story is somewhat slight, which is true of the strips it’s adapted from, but hey, tree hunting is a good subject!