New releases

Trick or Treat or Look Or Find, Great Pumpkin

The It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Look and Find book is an oversized one of busy pictures, each of which has a handful of specific items your children (or, on a quiet day, yourself) is supposed to search for. This puts it in the same category as the Where’s …

Discounts

That makes it the 22.8th anniversary, right?

Celebrating Peanuts, the 60th anniversary slipcased hardcover… well, the first of the two 60th anniversary slipcased hardcovers, and not the one I wrote… is now available from Amazon for 62% off its $75 list price. That brings it down to $28.86, a good deal, plus it qualifies for free shipping …

New releases

Great Pumpkin leaf globe and sticker book

The It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Leaf Globe set is a little boxed gift with a snow-globe-like object and a book of stickers. It’s published by Running Press, who make some nice books but whose boxed gifty things I usually find underwhelming. The good news is that the stickers …

General

Joe Ace, Flying Cool

Starting today, Build-a-Bear Workshops will be carrying a stuffed Snoopy, customizable with a range of outfit pieces (which, for those of you who have not experienced B-a-BW, is what their business is all about.) The figure has been available for online order for a few days… and pictured here is …

Now shipping

Now shipping and now orderable

Now orderable: The Complete Peanuts 1983-1984, introduction by Leonard Maltin! Now shipping: A Charlie Brown Christmas: With Sound and Music, the non-Hallmark version of last year’s Hallmark version. I will be covering this as soon as I get it in my CBChristmas-greedy hands! Also, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown …

New releases

Into the Sky with The Flying Ace – a review

The eighth of the ten Wendy’s Kids’ Meal books is Into the Sky with the Flying Ace. Throughout this, we see roughly the same image – a mid-range shot of Snoopy the Flying Ace sitting on his doghouse. Five of the pages are what you see here – The Flying …

Animated Peanuts

Upcoming Peanuts DVDs

There’s a couple more Peanuts DVDs on the way as part of the Happiness Is… Peanuts run of not-named-after-a-TV-special DVDs. First up is Snow Days, which includes the special She’s a Good Skate, Charlie Brown as well as some material from the Saturday morning Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show series. …

Upcoming releases

Preordering the Peanuts comic book

Comic book stores will now have the catalog from which they can preorder issue #0 of the new Peanuts comic being published by the Kaboom line. Please realize that many comic book stores won’t order any copies unless they get requests (many stores are better described as “superhero stores” than …

New releases

The latest Wendys book cover

See? No Charlie Brown again. What’d I tell ya? The round-headed kid gets no respect. This book should now or very shortly be appearing at a Wendy’s hamburger outlet new you, unless you’re not near a Wendy’s, in which case it will be appearing at Wendy’s far from you, where …

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Today’s Peanuts tongue twister

SNOOPY’S SHEEP SHOES Five times fast. Start now.