New books come out, and Nat goes to Austin
Just a quick catch-up on books now available for immediate shipping: The Peanuts Grand Piano Book Peanuts Sudoku Comic Digest And the copies of The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 have actually been printed and genuinely exist, although they’ve not hit the stores yet. I got a copy just the other day, …
Two upcoming book covers
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minor newsy bits
The upcoming new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas now has a cover. Some day, I’ll really have to do a chart of all the formats and editions that have come out under this title… Speaking of A Charlie Brown Christmas book – the huge discount available on the …
Compact Happiness
Coming in August is a book that Amazon calls The Peanuts Classics Treasury: The Complete “Happiness Is” Collection but which the publisher’s website refers to as Peanuts: A Treasury of Happiness. Presumably, this is a collection of all the content from Happiness is a Warm Puppy, Security is a Thumb …
The three latest books
I just received: The new paperback kids book adaptation of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown. This one comes with a sheet of stickers, including 3 of Snoopy and 1 each of six other characters. It’s an okay adaptation as such things go; the even line weight and coloring used …
ANOTHER A Charlie Brown Christmas book? Oy vey!
At some point, I really should put together a pile of the various A Charlie Brown Christmas book adaptations and take a photo. Really, it is amusing to me, but then I’m easily amused. And I shall be amused again this fall, as Perseus Books/Running Press has announced the following …
Complete Peanuts cover
The World War I Flying Ace hits the cover of The Complete Peanuts: 1969 to 1970, which doesn’t ship until October (it’s not the next volume, it’s the one after that.) And as long as we’re looking at covers, here’s the one for that Peanuts Sudoku Digest, with a bunch …
Upcoming kids books covers
Here’s the first look at the covers of two more Peanuts books coming from Running Press Kids: It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie BrownWhere is Woodstock?And yes, that’s a small-parts-may-choke-toddlers warning on Where is Woodstock? (which should not be confused with 1988 Little Golden Book Where’s Woodstock?, but of course will …
The new generation of DVDs
The first two of the new Warner Brother Peanuts DVD releases are now available for pre-order… and they look rather familiar. Warners is pairing the same specials on disks as in the previous editions, so that their Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown disk also has It’s Your First Kiss, Charlie …
Bill Mauldin books, and last minute suggestions
You know Bill Mauldin, the artist who Snoopy used to quaff root beers with on Veterans Day? Whose characters Willie and Joe once walked along side Snoopy? And who more importantly kept American servicemen amused in cartoons that reflected what they were actually going through? Well, a nice big two-volume …