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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 …

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Demand to see his AKC Purebred Registration Certificate!

We now have cover images for the two new board books coming in May, Messy Like Pigpen and Cool Like Snoopy. However, the bigger news is another new storybook coming in July: Snoopy for President! That’s right, the Simon Spotlight line is exploiting that thing that happens in America every four years – …

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a peek at Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz

  Hey, first I got a sneak peek, now I can give you one! Here’s ten pages from the upcoming book PEANUTS: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, which you can preorder by clicking on that title there. And you probably should. Even this sample shows you such cool cartoonists as …

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off-model Peanuts

I’ve got three new Peanuts books sitting here waiting for review, but with preparations for my appearance tonight at the Pasadena Library, I’ll not get to them today. But last night I by chance managed to get my hands on a copy of the upcoming Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. …

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More May books

‘Tis the season for publishers to be publishing their spring catalogs, and two more Peanuts books have shown up on the radar. Peppermint Patty Goes to Camp – alas, it’s unlikely that this storybook aimed at 5-7 year olds will be doing the story where Peppermint Patty went to a …

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Spring kids books

Coming next spring: two board books (or at least that’s how they’re listed now, although they are also listed at 24 pages, which is long for a board book): Cool Like Snoopy and Messy Like Pigpen. a storybook: Kick the Football, Charlie Brown!, illustrated by Scott Jeralds.

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Paperback Complete Peanuts #5

Now available for pre-order is volume 5 of the paperback edition of The Complete Peanuts.  This volume covers the years 1959 and 1960, and features an introduction by Whoopi Goldberg.