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Wormy Weather Peanuts

At the moment, Amazon is claiming that this is the cover to the Peanuts Mad Libs book coming out in October. I suspect it will be changed before release.

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Classic finds

The Peanuts crew shows how to write right

With the help of this Japanese writing guide, I could soon learn to write Japanese. Which would be really cool. But then I would have to get another book that teaches me how to read Japanese, or I’ll have no idea what I’ll have written. The book is illustrated with …

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Queen Lucy’s Tree House

Covers of upcoming books! The Peanuts Great American Adventure series! Do the clicky clicky thing if you want them!

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Snoopy figure and sticker book

The avalanche of books for the end of the year has not abated, as witness The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy the Flying Ace: Figurine and Sticker Book Kit, which is one of those little boxes that comes with a figurine and a little sixteen page booklet of stickers, thus qualifying it for …

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Chip Kidd’s Necessary Peanuts Book

Chip Kidd’s new book Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, as now been given a release date – October 20 – and is available for preorder. Intro by Jeff Kinney, contributions from Jeanie Schulz and the mighty Paige Braddock, and pictures, pictures, pictures!

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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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New releases

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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New releases

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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