When things I thought weren’t going to happen happen
It had been so long since the most recent trade paperback volume collecting the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book stories that I was assuming they’d lost either the rights or the will to reprint the remaining issues, an assumption backed by the fact that Kaboom! no longer lists any Peanuts product on …
Count the differences!
You know those puzzles where you have to find the differences between two very similar pictures? Well, at left is the cover for the upcoming book It’s Hockey Time, Franklin! as I got it from the publisher’s website a couple weeks back, and at the right is the cover as it …
Woodstock is not a baby!
We have a real cover at last for the Peanuts Baby Book: My First Year. While Woodstock is not actually a baby, it does make for a better cover than what they had been showing us.
Being a big brother can be a big bother
Coming in February is the storybook You’re a Big Brother, Charlie Brown!, built around the introduction of Sally into the Peanuts strip. As of now, the artist is Scott Jeralds and the writer is ol’ Mr. To Be Determined. Or Ms. To Be Determined. It’s hard to tell these things from …
Woof and chirp, BFFs
Coming in February is Snoopy and Woodstock: Best Friends Forever, a storybook. The paperback comes with two pages of stickers, the hardcover edition doesn’t, but both have the same thrilling cover image of Snoopy and Woodstock skateboarding, Snoopy with his safety helmet, Woodstock with his yarmulka! (“Yarmulka”, also known as …
A book with a very bossy title
Coming in January of 2018 (the future!) is Be Kind, Be Brave, Be You, a Be Oh A Are Dee Be Oh Okay. With 26 pages and an uplifting message of encouragement, this should fulfill all of your need for uplifting boards!
Here comes Here Comes the Easter Beagle!!
Landing in January is Here Comes the Easter Beagle!, which is, of course, celebrating the adventures of one of those giant stone beagle heads that they found on Easter Island. No, wait, that’s wrong. But that’d be cool too, right? Well, in order to make this short 8″x8″ book at …
Lots of little Peanuts books in one big book
Coming in December is Peanuts 5-Minute Stories, which is a collection of earlier Peanuts storybooks – and by “earlier”, I mean “earlier than December”, not earlier that now; It’s Hockey Time, Franklin! has not yet been released. But it’s got a dozen books worth of tales between its hard covers, although …
The wrapping of the wrapping paper book
Ah, finally we have something that looks like an actual cover for the upcoming A Charlie Brown Christmas Wrapping Paper Activity Book. The few uncolored figures to the left look to me like ghosts in the composition. Maybe they’re the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future?
All the Peanuts statues
For a long time, Peanuts book collectors with an interest in the Peanuts statues that blanketed St. Paul and Santa Rosa in various years had to settle for the combination auction catalog/souvenir booklets that accompanied those displays, and some of them have been hard to find. But now there’s a book …