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My guide to Christmas: Go to December 23rd, then hang a left

Coming this holiday season to folks in the UK (and those of us willing to order from overseas – really, it’s easy and cheap) is The Peanuts Guide to Christmas, now available for preorder.

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Activity books actively en route

The forthcoming Peanuts movie The Peanuts Movie is also bringing a number of books. The most recent to pop up as coming are a couple of activity books. The Peanuts Movie Sticker Activity Book promises “lots of cool stickers” in October while November’s The Peanuts Movie Doodle Book claims to be “the perfect …

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Not That Charlie Brown

Not that Snoopy

I think we can assume that this feline star of the book Snoopy’s Holiday Adventure (self-published last month) is not, in fact, the beagle we’ve all come to know and love. (The currently listed price is $21.62, which, for 24 pages, is a bit steep even for my I-like-to-have-Not-That-Snoopy-books buying …

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Peanuts books have been arriving

I’ve been trying to keep the blog down to one post per day, but there’s been a lot of little things going on (I’ve got new blog posts queued up for the next few days already – covers, new book announcements, things of that sort), so I figured I’d better …

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Peanuts Movie books look like Peanuts Movie items

We’ve got some more covers for books based on this fall’s The Peanuts Movie. There’s the storybook A Friend, Indeed: and there’s the board book Snoopy and Friends! (not to, of course, be confused with the two other books titled Snoopy and Friends that will also be released this year.)  

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Reworking the Classics

We’re starting to see some of the covers for the new reissues of the 1960s Determined Productions books… and they’re not using the classic look, or even just doing a a little rework. No, they look like these: Christmas is Together-Time Happiness is a Warm Puppy

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New York Times covers the Peanuts-by-other-creators book

The old grey lady has a blog piece about this fall’s Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz which notes that it will have stories, strips, drawings of and about Peanuts, each with a text piece from the artist. Names they whip out include Simpsons creator Matt Groenig, Mutts‘s Patrick McDonnell, my pal Stan Sakai, young …

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Complete but delayed Peanuts

Volume 23 of the Complete Peanuts series has moved from the series traditional place on the schedule back to a release on the Fourth of July. This volume, which covers the years 1995 and 1996 (yes, we’re getting close to the end, folks) has an introduction by… RiffTrax. Yes, it’s by …

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Doghouse is in da house!

Received for my birthday yesterday, from my 5 year old son, Ben: a handmade cardboard Snoopy’s doghouse.

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Free Comic Book Day tomorrow

Remember, tomorrow (Saturday) is Free Comic Book Day, when most comic book specialty shops in North America will be giving out free special-edition comic books to anyone who stops by… including the Boom! Studios Tenth Anniversary Celebration, which will include a small amount of Peanuts content (a reprint of the Vicki …

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