Inherited Peanuts gene
My son is 20 months old now, and generally hasn’t paid much attention to the TV. That’s starting to change, but still, most of the time if he’s in the room and the TV is on, he’s busy doing something else, often pestering someone to help him page through one …
A vital correction regarding Sweet Dreams, Snoopy
Last posting, I encouraged you not to confuse the different books entitled Sweet Dreams, Snoopy or some variant thereof. However, now that I have the new Wendy’s Kid’s Meal board book Sweet Dreams, Snoopy in my little Frosty-stained mitts, I can give you free rein to go ahead and confuse …
Peanuts DVD bargains
The new special Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown hits stores tomorrow, and Amazon is already shipping some copies (knowing they’ll take more than a day to arrive). But at the moment, they’re also offering some tempting prices on other Peanuts animated disks: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown …
A third board book
AAUGH Blog reader Bill dropped a note that he dropped by his local Wendy’s in Colorado and scored not one, not two, but three different Peanuts board books! The first two are the volumes discussed earlier; the third one, All About Me, bears the United Feature Syndicate copyright on it, …
Peanuts book at Wendy’s… or is it?
As the AAUGH Blogger, I find out about new and upcoming Peanuts books through a variety of sources. Sometimes publishers let me know what’s going on, sometimes it’s research finding out what’s in the new catalogs, sometimes a blog reader will tip me off to something new, and sometimes is …
Schulz granddaughter ebook
Noted but not yet reviewed – now available for your Kindle is the first installment of In the Shadow of the Family Dog, which is autobiographical material from Dena Hodges, Schulz’s granddaughter (the daughter of Schulz’s eldest daughter Meredith). From her descriptors elsewhere, it’s clear that this is intended to …
The Return of Peanuts Wisdom and Work and Play
A small publisher has just rereleased a couple books from the run of gifty hardcover strip reprints that showed up from Harper Collins in the 1990s. At the moment, it looks like these are available through Barnes & Noble only, at a cheap under-$6 price for these hardcovers. Now available …
Warm Blanket Happiness is now available
The book adaptation of the upcoming Peanuts direct-to-DVD release Happiness is a Warm Blanket is now shipping. The DVD itself isn’t due out until next month. (But here’s a thought – order them both now, and that will put an order just over $25, thus qualifying you for free super-saver …
Schulz’s Youth on the Nook
I’ve just released the Nook edition of Schulz’s Youth, my collection of the single-panel cartoons that Schulz did about teens and kids for Warner Press publications… and for now I’ve priced it at $4.99, the same price which I discounted the Kindle edition to. For those of you who don’t …
Peanuts Collection now shipping – get yours signed
Well, I see that some of the key online retail sites are listing The Peanuts Collection as in stock for immediate shipment, a couple weeks before the official release date. I had planned to get through my preview of the book before it hit… ah, well. If you’re buying a …