Here comes 2007
As I sit here, the clock is clicking down the last few hours of 2006. So what does 2007 have to offer the Charles Schulz book fan? Well, there’s the usual themed Peanuts collections, probably some more gift books, and so forth. Amidst all these common boks, there are four …
Happiness is a … what?!?
Okay, I have a weakness for the odd translations that autmoatic translators can cough up. So I was looking around Joyo (the Chinese branch of Amazon), thinking about finally ordering that Chinese 25 volume Peanuts set (alas, apparently out of print), and when Google gave me this translation for the …
Peanuts fans are everywhere
Here’s a shot my sister-in-law Judy Bradt shot on her recent vacation on Salt Spring Island:
Very Postal Peanuts
A Very Special Charlie Brown Holiday Collection is a new CD that came out for this holiday season – someone pointed me to it, but I didn’t have a chance to see one for myself until after Christmas, so I apologize to anyone who would’ve liked to have grabbed one …
Gift-giving countdown
Well, the holidays are barreling down upon us like Santa’s sleigh, if it was pulled by Wile E. Coyote and he made the mistake of looking down. Hannukah starts on December 15th this year, and Christmas is slated for December 25th this year. At this point, there’s still time to …
If you want to pay more for The Complete Peanuts…
The folks over at Easton Press are offering up the first five volumes of The Complete Peanuts at a leatherbound, gilt-edged set for $375.
Unexpected big thick Peanuts books
In Costco today, I discovered some new Peanuts books that I’d not heard of, and can find no reference to elsewhere. I’m not sure all of where these are available – at Costco, obviously, but it wouldn’t surprise me if other big-box stores (such as Sam’s Club) have them, or …
Review: Woodstock: Small is Beautiful
I just got a a shipment of a couple books from the Schulz Museum bookstore, who has things which are available nowhere else. First up is Woodstock: Small is Beautiful, a 32 page spiral-bound horizontally-oriented full color cardstock book. This was designed to sell during the Summer of Woodstock celebration …
New Peanuts books in Dutch
AAUGH blog fan Jan let us know that a new set of 10 Peanuts books (each with 600 strips on 200 pages) are planned to be published over the coming year by the Dutch company Atlas. More information is available here (in Dutch).
More Schulz gift books available
The second set of reissues of the classic Determined Productions hardcover gift books are now shipping: Christmas Is Together-Time I Need All The Friends I Can Get Love is Walking Hand In Hand Suppertime