The Peanuts Movie Movie Novelization
Yes, the word “movie” does appears twice in a row in the title of The Peanuts Movie Movie Novelization, at least if you go by the book’s spine. Going by the front cover, the title appears to be Blue Sky Studios The Peanuts Movie by Schulz Movie Novelization, which I cannot say is …
Snoopy and Friends and Snoopy and Friends!
The big shipment of Peanuts books included the Little Golden Book Snoopy and Friends (that’s an ordering link) and the shaped board book Snoopy and Friends! (that, too), which you may remember are the final two of the three books titled Snoopy and Friends coming out this year. And while they’re both based on the …
Civilization can end now; we have a book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas
The big pile of books that arrived yesterday had mostly The Peanuts Movie-related items… but I’m going to start looking at the pile with the new book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas. That’s right, I’m eating dessert first! And this is indeed an all-new adaptation, not just a reformatting of an …
New Charlie Brown Christmas book shows no mercy. Also, no Marcie.
The new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas from Running Press has a couple of special features to make it a Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. It comes in a slipcase (you know, a box that the book slides in and out of), and it includes a removable poster of this image: And …
Peanuts: Friends Forever
I just received Peanuts: Friends Forever, the newest in Ballantine’s square reprint books. Like most of this series, it has the strips in color (taken from the recent newspaper reprints), with three dailies or one Sunday on each of the book’s 148 pages of strips. That means hundreds of strips, all …
Another kiddie bio of Schulz
One of the joys I’ve had doing this blog is picking apart some of the biographies of Schulz written for kids, generally sold as part of bulk sets of biographies meant to fill school library shelves, offering light reading for youngsters who need to do book reports. The problem with …
Unauthorized and undetailed
When the money train is rolling, everyone tries to get their piece of the pie. Or maybe some different mixed metaphor is called for, but it’s a truth. One example of that is a Kindle article that popped up recently, An Unauthorized Preview of The Peanuts Movie: The 2015 Film based on …
Two types of Halloween
Modern book adaptations of Peanuts specials generally shorten the special, because a TV special will have more content than a standard children’s picture book will hold. (This is, I should note, the opposite situation from adult novel adaptations of feature films, where they will add scenes not in the movie, as a …
That first Peanuts book
The new edition of the first Peanuts book, titled simply Peanuts, doesn’t hit regular bookstores until next month, but it’s already landed at comic book stores. The reproduction is good and sharp, they reproduced from an early printing so it still have the introduction in it that was missing from later …
Charlie Brown is Golden
You’re Golden, Charlie Brown is a recently released strip collection focused on the round-headed kid. It’s 150 pages of strips all from the mid-1960s, with three dailies (colorized) or one Sunday on each page (and, as with the previous volumes in this Ballantine Books format, with a curiously large hunk of …