Franklin makes the cover
Those of you who read my book The Peanuts Collection know about Harriet Glickman, the woman who suggested to Schulz that he add a bit of racial diversity to the previous all-white cast of Peanuts. I had a longer discussion with her and did a write-up for Hogan’s Alley magazine, …
Two more books to come
Running Press, publishers of many a Peanuts book these days, have announced two more books for 2012. February’s Snoopy the Flying Ace is actually one of those boxed sets which comes with a booklet and some object… and sorry, I don’t yet know what the object is. Good Grief! Charlie …
Happiness is a Warm Nook
They’ve started a new push putting Peanuts books on the Nook, the Barnes & Noble ebook device. Went to check it out myself, and got the bad news: they’re only for the color Nook (and the iPad Nook software), because the books have interactive elements that wouldn’t work on the …
The cover for this year’s other Charlie Brown Christmas edition
Here’s the preliminary cover for the upcoming new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Almost certainly, this will use the same adaptation as last year’s Hallmark edition; it even has the same sound buttons. However, not only is the cover different from the Hallmark edition, it looks like it’s …
The score – Snoopy 6 Linus 1 Charlie Brown zero
Here’s the cover for the latest in the series of Wendy’s Kids’ Meal books; the books are now or will soon be available at your local Wendy’s hamburger outlet. I expect I’ll have one to review later in the week. Please note that as of this cover, even four of …
The next Wendy’s Kids Meal book
Yes, yes, I do manage to crank three posts out of each of these Wendy’s Kids Meal books. We call that efficient use of information. I also manage to make three meals out of each rotisserie chicken. Anyway, August 1st is the official release date for The World Famous Beagle …
Charlie Brown – cover-blocked again
The new Wendy’s Kids’ Meal book which started rolling out yesterday features, on its cover, Snoopy. That’s right, even for a book titled I Love Baseball, Charlie Brown gets totally Rodney Dangerfiel’d! If your Wendy’s has the signage indicating that they have toys linked to the movie Zookeeper, then they …
The next Wendy’s Kid’s Meal book
The title of the next Wendy’s Kid’s Meal kids-under-3 Peanuts board book will be: I Love Baseball. It will start hitting the restaurants this coming Monday, although any individual outlet might not have it available for a few days after that. I’ve not yet seen the cover – I’ll bet …
Beagle Deluxe
Coming early next year is a “deluxe edition” book adaptation of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown. The current listing says it’s a paperback, but I doubt that; given the $16.95 price point, it’s most likely the Easter equivalent of the big, square Charlie Brown Christmas and Great Pumpkin hardcovers …
Waiting for Charlie Brown
Here in the AAUGH.com Reference Library, we have a section for “Not That Charlie Brown”, which has a couple of biographies of people named Charlie Brown in it. (We do keep the biography of Charlie Brown, Schulz’s co-worker for whom he named the character, separate.) Now I find that released-but-temporarily-unavailable …