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Lose the Blanket. Take the Cannoli.

We’ve got covers for a couple of upcoming kids books. Lose the Blanket, Linus ships in October, and Happy Valentine’s Day, Charlie Brown ships in December.  

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The Peanuts Guide to Happiness, take one

The first thing I noticed about the UK-only book The Peanuts Guide to Happiness is that they made the same strange cover design choice that I’ve seen on very few other occasions – they left the Peanuts characters off of the cover. You’d think if you were paying good money …

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The anniversary of an anniversary

Coming in September is a paperback edition of Celebrating Peanuts, touted as a 65th anniversary book. The original hardcover edition, which has Schulz commentary culled from various sources, was released as a 60th anniversary edition, although they really put it out around the 59th anniversary. For those keeping count – that’s …

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Crochet

I’m not going to review Peanuts Crochet, not just because there would be a strong conflict of interest for me (I am, after all, working on an upcoming book for the same publisher and packager), but because I am really in no position to judge a crochet book, and I …

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The language barrier has been broken!

I know you. You were thinking about buying the original Peanuts graphic novel It’s Tokyo, Charlie Brown, but you felt there was something wrong with that. Of course, here are all these kids going to Japan, and everyone’s standing around talking English? That just ain’t right! Something had to be done! The …

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The most valuable Peanuts book of all

Yesterday, I was guest speaker at my son Ben’s kindergarten class. I spent forty minutes in the morning telling them about how comic books are made and how you read them. I mentioned some of what I’ve worked on (Power Rangers got a good reaction) and what I am working …

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The Snoopy Treasures cover

A cover image for my upcoming book, The Snoopy Treasures, has now been released, as you can see here. The images for the inside are still being worked on, but there should be plenty of them, so feel free to go ahead and preorder away!

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This Peanuts book is a little puzzling

Coming in May is Peanuts My First Puzzle Book, which looks to be a book of jigsaw puzzles, much like that puzzle book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas that Hallmark put out last year. This one has five puzzles.

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Who says Christmas comes but once a year?

Having already announced this year’s new book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas coming from Simon Spotlight (that link is for the Kindle edition, I don’t see one showing up for print yet), I am pleased to announced that there will also be a new edition coming from Running Press Kids. …

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Crocheting beats quilting

Amazon is telling me that the Peanuts Crochet book and kit which was supposed to ship next month is instead showing up tomorrow! And Peanuts Quilted Celebrations, which was due last month, is instead slated to show up next week. But my mother used to quilt, and if there’s one thing …

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