Ah, now here is an interesting one – a book offering the work of other creators trying to interpret Peanuts. Peanuts Off Model will ship in September, and promises work by “hit television creators, award-winning cartoonists and best-selling authors” in doing their own take on Schulz’s creation. I’ll be interested to …

The upcoming Australian book Peanuts Classic Treasury that appeared in Amazon US’s listings has now disappeared from Amazon. I presume it will still come out in Australia, that it had just gotten improperly listed for sale in the US. Oddly, Amazon wrote me just a few days ago to tell me …

Coming in January is Peanuts Quilted Celebration, another one for all you crafty folk out there. It has applique designs! A CD-ROM! A foreword by Jeannie Schulz!  All brought to you by the American Quilter’s Society! Am I gonna preorder a copy of this one? Of course I am! Am I going …

Here are the covers for some of next year’s kiddie books. (Click covers to go preorder.)  

Now shipping are: volume 2 of the paperback edition of The Complete Peanuts, the boxed set of the first two volumes in that series, and the fourth trade paperback collection of the Kaboom! Peanuts comics. (I won’t be reviewing that last, as it’s got some of my work in it. But …

Ah, there’s another Peanuts book coming up in that Popcorn Reader series for beginning English reader. It’s The Ice-Skating Competition, This one is based on the strip story where Peppermint Patty’s preparing for a skating contest, with Snoopy as her coach. Shipping in June, it’s available for preorder now.

Simon Spotlight (which is Simon and Schuster’s kids licensing line) is unleashing a lot of books in May, aimed at the younger crowd… including two with apparent Halloween themes: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown You’ve Got a Rock, Charlie Brown! Meet the Peanuts Gang!: With Fun Facts, Trivia, Comics, …

Here’s one (well, two) I wasn’t expecting: in August, British publisher Titan Books will reprint Peanuts and More Peanuts, the first two Peanuts books that were published, collecting strips from the first half of the 1950s. As far as I know, this is the first time that More Peanuts has been published in …

Coming in June is Snoopy and Friends, a part of Scholastic’s Popcorn Readers series – these are books aimed at those just learning to read English. The book has two stories in it built around strip storylines, and it looks like its the one where Schroeder gets his piano stuck in a kite-eating …

Coming in March is a revised, redesigned edition of the Peanuts quote book Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Peanuts. And having gotten that out of the way, and finding that this first blog post in days is quite short, I’m going to be horribly exploitive of this blog …