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An additional Great American Adventure

The three history-oriented storybooks in the Peanuts Great American Adventure series that were one supposed to come out this year have been sliding all over the schedule; at the moment, one is now supposed to be landing in January with the other two in June. But add to that June …

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He’s or a hero

For those expressing concern over the opening panel on this announced cover for The Complete Peanuts volume 5 paperback: Fantagraphics is aware of the error in the text and will be correcting it before the book is actually printed.

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More covers

Sometimes, I struggle trying to meet my goal of one blog post a day… but these days, the problem is that I’m trying to keep it not above two, but there is so much happening! As I type this on Tuesday, I’m waiting for seven new Peanuts books to come in …

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Big Book coming

I’ve been keeping my eyes peeled at Costco, where in the past two years I’ve found the first two volumes of The Big Book of Peanuts. This rework of an Italian book format puts all of the dailies from a given decade into a single hefty volume, with the 1980s and …

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Make a Trade, Charlie Brown! cover

This is the cover to the storybook Make a Trade, Charlie Brown!, which ships in December, just ready to stuff in the stocking of your level 2 readers!

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Do Your Happy Dance cover

Here’s the cover for the board book with the full-on title of Do Your Happy Dance!: Celebrate Wonderful You., which ships next March.

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Peanuts volume 6 preview

Here’s a preview of Peanuts volume 6, which hits better comic shops this week and is still available for preordering from Amazon. Of course, since this book just reprints issues 17-20 of the Boom Press/Kaboom! Peanuts comic book series, this preview is basically a post-view of the first ten pages of …

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Foreign Kindle editions

One of the interesting things about ebooks is that they break down one of the two barriers to international distribution – an ebook generally costs nothing to send across national lines. (The other limitation is contractual; book contracts often limit the territories in which a book can be sold.) We’re …

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You’ve heard of Little Golden Books, now Little Debbie Books!

There are plenty of folks in the Peanuts book business, but now the Little Debbie snack cake company is s selling a Peanuts book through their website. Alas, it’s not a book that’s only available through them – it’s Only What’s Necessary, the upcoming art-of-Peanuts book. They’re offering it for $24.95, which …

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Hallmark does A Charlie Brown Christmas yet again

I do not yet have a copy in my grimy little hands, but Hallmark is indeed keeping with tradition by offering another book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas this year! You can order yours here. I am unsure if they are yet being sold in the Hallmark stores, but you …