With an announced release date of December 23rd comes Be Loving, yet another gift book in the Peanuts Wisdom To Carry You Through series. That means we have four of these books coming this year, in addition to the ones already released. Maybe if you went to the gym more …

Coming in September is Be Joyful, another book in the Peanuts Wisdom To Carry You Through series. And with that, we are now up to eight books and one box set coming out in September. Goodness only knows what next year will look like, with the added weight of the …

Coming in September is Peanuts: a Scanimation Book. Okay, so what’s “scanimation”? Actually, it’s pretty cool. These books are slightly mechanical (as, say, a pop-up book is). When you turn a page, a clear sheet with bars printed on it is pulled across a graphic below it, causing some animation. …

Coming in October is Peanuts Volume 4, the fourth collection of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book. This will cover issues 9 through 12, which means that it will have three stories written by Yours Truly. It’s preorderable now, of course.

We’ve got the first look at four upcoming covers (the first three Little Patriot books – those are the ones with the very modeled Tom Brannon look, provided by Tom Brannon – and one AMP! For Kids strip collection.) Click on them for the books themselves, all available for preorder.

Coming in July is POW!, the third Peanuts book in the AMP Comics for Kids line of full-color strip collections. I like the first one, and the second one comes out in a little over a week. This one is Charlie Brown-themed.

Now we have the covers for all those upcoming Fantagraphics books. First, let’s take a look at the paperback editions of The Complete Peanuts. The design we saw earlier has been scrapped. This is volume 1: and add in volume 2: and you get the box set: And besides those, …

The solicitations for fall books just hit… and boy, did they ever hit hard for the Peanuts book collector. Whatever you collect, you’ll have something to buy. If you like your strip collections complete and hardcover, you’ve got volume 22 of The Complete Peanuts, as well as the box set …

Fantagraphics has posted a video preview of Batter Up, Charlie Brown!, a small baseball-themed strip collection coming in April and available for preorder now. It looks like a nice little book.

Simon & Schuster, who for years put out Peanuts kids books (adaptations of animation, original storybooks, and so forth) under their Little Simon imprint, are jumping back on that wagon again, and not in a small way. This time, they’ve been named as the “master licensee” for Peanuts children’s books, …