Pocky stars
A friend gave this to me, a Japanese candy box. What makes me happiest is not that the Peanuts characters are windsurfing, nor that Belle is front and center (I’m well used to the fact that this very minor strip character is huge in licensing.) No, the happy-making thing is …
LIghtly outlines Peanuts
Got in a couple more books from the UK, Snoopy Saves the Day and Best of Friends. These are two Charlie-Brown-and-Snoopy oriented storybooks, telling original tales using an interesting visual style. The art by Tom Brannon (who has done some interesting modeled-looking Peanuts in the US) takes an interesting tack – he …
The Ice-Skating Competition
I got the second of the Popcorn ELT Readers, the British books for beginning English learners, today, and pretty much my review of the previous one applies to The Ice-Skating Competition. The big difference here is that instead of telling several tales, this book tells one long (well, long for …
Review of Snoopy and Friends (take 1)
Well, something happened that should happen a couple more times this year: I received a book titled Snoopy and Friends. This one is for the UK market, and is aimed at youngsters just learning English… well, it’s a Level 2, so it’s youngsters just learning a little more English. This full-color …
The Complete Peanuts 1995-1996
When I received my provided-by-the-publisher reviewer copy of The Complete Peanuts 1995-1996, I knew instantly what I really wanted to get out of it. I was reminded by the cover blurb that said Introduction by RiffTrax MST3K, which may sound like arglebargle to many of you, but to me had me zooming for …
Fun English with Snoopy
The next book in my recent shipment from Japan, Fun English with Snoopy, is (obviously) another English language textbook. This one is a workbook populated by strips from 1990 and 1991, with sections for students to demonstrate their English comprehension by translating the strip’s text into Japanese, as well as answering …
Let’s Speak English with Snoopy!
Continuing our look at Japanese English language education books, we have A Peanuts Book Special: Let’s Speak English With Snoopy!, which is similar to the volume I discussed earlier: an English language strip, with Japanese translation on the outside, followed by discussion of some of the idiomatic or uncommon language used. …
Snoopy, the unspoken language master
Yes, I’m finally getting back around to documenting my shipment of Japanese Peanuts books. This isn’t the first time I’ve ordered lot of such books from Japan. Last time, I realized later that I’d ordered a large portion of cookbooks. This time, most of my order ended up being language …
Charlie Brown’s Japanese Christmas
I got a package from Amazon’s Japanese division, with seven Japanese Peanuts books. I’m not going to cover them all here at once… but I’m also not going to bury the lede. I scored myself the Japanese edition of the pop-up book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas. With all my …
Meeting, Flying a Kite, and Taking Off
Catching up on reviewing some of the recently arrived Peanuts books: Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown (not to be confused with the soon-to-be-reprinted strip collection of the same name) and Snoopy Takes Off! do a perfectly fine job of being what they are, which is cheap storybooks. The art is well-drawn. …