Peanuts is old enough for a Social Security blanket
Sixty-five years ago today, paperboys were hitting doorsteps with newspapers that included the very first Peanuts strip. Folks who read about Good Ol’ Charlie Brown (“How I hate him!”) probably hadn’t a clue as to how old he would become. And let’s think about that age for a bit. We still …
Joanne Greenberg
I was just looking at “I Never Promised You an Apple Orchard”: The collected Writings of SNOOPY, a 1976 storybook by Schulz (which is largely gags taken from the strip, although the art is all new), and I saw that it was dedicated “For Joanne Greenberg, of course”. Of course. So …
A poster-inclusive children’s book for all the poster children out there
As I’d mentioned, I accidentally double-ordered some of the recent Peanuts books… but in the case of The Sky’s the Limit, Snoopy!, I don’t mind. This thin, floppy, full-color storybook of the Snoopy-centric portions the upcoming The Peanuts Movie movie “includes,” as the cover promises “double-sided posters!” There’s two: a 15.5″ square …
Charlie Brown Is Not a Quilter! No, wait, that says “Quitter”. But it’s also true!
Charlie Brown Is Not a Quitter! is a full-color hardcover storybook derived from the movie The Peanuts Movie. Flipping through it, carefully not reading the text to avoid spoilers, and making my best guesses, it seems to be all of the Charlie Brown-centric parts of the movie story, without the Snoopy-centric …
The Peanuts Movie Movie Novelization
Yes, the word “movie” does appears twice in a row in the title of The Peanuts Movie Movie Novelization, at least if you go by the book’s spine. Going by the front cover, the title appears to be Blue Sky Studios The Peanuts Movie by Schulz Movie Novelization, which I cannot say is …
Snoopy and Friends and Snoopy and Friends!
The big shipment of Peanuts books included the Little Golden Book Snoopy and Friends (that’s an ordering link) and the shaped board book Snoopy and Friends! (that, too), which you may remember are the final two of the three books titled Snoopy and Friends coming out this year. And while they’re both based on the …
Civilization can end now; we have a book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas
The big pile of books that arrived yesterday had mostly The Peanuts Movie-related items… but I’m going to start looking at the pile with the new book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas. That’s right, I’m eating dessert first! And this is indeed an all-new adaptation, not just a reformatting of an …
Peanuts 29
The Kaboom Peanuts comic book returns in December, with issue 29. This is the cover (minus the logos and such, naturally) The plot is described simply as “Peppermint Patty asks Charlie Brown to help out on her baseball team. “
Peanutize yourself
I’m not showing a lot of the promotion for The Peanuts Movie, because there is so much of it, but this is a bit of fun: an editor to create a Peanuts Movie version of yourself. This is the best I could do for me (seen here with the star …
Where Beagles Dare preview
Here’s a preview of the new Peanuts graphic novel Where Beagles Dare!, being released Wednesday. Click any page to enlarge. Unfortunately, the book seems to have disappeared from Amazon, it was there before, and I expect it will be there again!