It’s a New New World, Charlie Brown
The cover for the upcoming book It’s a New World, Charlie Brown has been changed. It is now: when it was previously shown as:
A bumper crop of British books
The UK is getting some more titles not available on these shores… unless you order them shipped here, as these links will do. The Bumper Book of Peanuts (October) Hardcover of strips from the 1970s, 1980s. How to Be a Grrrl (November) by Lucy van Pelt
Kari Schuetz covers Charles Schulz (say that 5 times fast!)
It’s been a while since we got a new aimed-at-the-school-library biography of Schulz. That drought ends in August with Charles Schulz, part of the Blastoff Readers line, written by Kari Schuetz. This Level 4 reader is now available for preorder.
Peanuts cover bands unite
The previously-mentioned Peanuts Off-Model book is now being listed as Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz. Folks doing their own takes on Schulz’s characters include the very Peanuts-influenced Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons), Raina Telgemeier (I’ve been reading some of her best-selling YA graphic novels lately, like Smile and Drama), and Jeffrey …
Disappearing Peanuts books
The two upcoming Peanuts books aimed at those learning English – Snoopy and Friends and The Ice-Skating Competition – have disappeared from Amazon, but are still preorderable via a British sources (such as the links given above), which are listing a British publication location. As such, these may have to be …
Snoopy for Kindling
In the midst of the swarm of Peanuts books scheduled to hit the shelves this year, there are also ebooks landing as well. Coming up in April is four Peanuts ebooks: Snoopy Master of Disguise Snoopy the Fitness Fanatic Snoopy the Legal Beagle Snoopy the Matchmaker The titles suggest strongly …
Finally, someone addresses the looming Peanuts book shortage
Cider Mill Press is once again reissuing some of those sweet little Determined Productions gift books, with four of them being released in October: Happiness is a Warm Puppy Love is Walking Hand in Hand Home is On Top of a Dog House Christmas Is Together-Time The numbering is Cider …
Peanuts are Golden… Books
The Golden Books line is putting out three Peanuts volumes in September. Two of them are reprints of (or at least have the same title as) Little Golden Books issued in the 1980s: Let’s Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown and Where’s Woodstock. The new title, Meet the Peanuts Gang, will have to …
Coverswitch on my book
Now Amazon is showing this cover for my upcoming book The Snoopy Treasures, different from the one they were showing last month. I have no inside information that I can give you on whether this is the final version. (The title on this version is slightly different as well; it …
Two months of Sundays
You may recall when Fantagraphics announced their full color Sunday reprint series Peanuts Every Sunday that I pointed out that this could cause some confusion for collectors, as there was an old black-and-white Holt, Rinehart, and Winston collection of the same name. Well, that confusion may not just be for old …