For those expressing concern over the opening panel on this announced cover for The Complete Peanuts volume 5 paperback: Fantagraphics is aware of the error in the text and will be correcting it before the book is actually printed.

Sometimes, I struggle trying to meet my goal of one blog post a day… but these days, the problem is that I’m trying to keep it not above two, but there is so much happening! As I type this on Tuesday, I’m waiting for seven new Peanuts books to come in …

The sensibility of Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, the new book from designer Chip Kidd and photographer Geoff Spear, will seem very familiar to folks who bought Kidd’s earlier Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz. It displays Peanuts work not as it was meant to …

I’ve been keeping my eyes peeled at Costco, where in the past two years I’ve found the first two volumes of The Big Book of Peanuts. This rework of an Italian book format puts all of the dailies from a given decade into a single hefty volume, with the 1980s and …

This is the cover to the storybook Make a Trade, Charlie Brown!, which ships in December, just ready to stuff in the stocking of your level 2 readers!

Here’s the cover for the board book with the full-on title of Do Your Happy Dance!: Celebrate Wonderful You., which ships next March.

Here’s a preview of Peanuts volume 6, which hits better comic shops this week and is still available for preordering from Amazon. Of course, since this book just reprints issues 17-20 of the Boom Press/Kaboom! Peanuts comic book series, this preview is basically a post-view of the first ten pages of …

I just stumbled across Deutsch macht Spaß!, a three year old German language textbook for English speakers that aims to make learning grammar fun by using both Peanuts strips and Hagar The Horrible strips, all translated into German, as examples. (To be clear, I don’t have a copy of this on …

One of the interesting things about ebooks is that they break down one of the two barriers to international distribution – an ebook generally costs nothing to send across national lines. (The other limitation is contractual; book contracts often limit the territories in which a book can be sold.) We’re …

Following up on yesterday’s post, I’m now finishing up the unwrapping of the new Hallmark book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas and getting down to its chewy nougat center, the book itself. Peeling off the shrinkwrap, we find two copies of a book that looks a lot like 2011’s Recordable …