Charlie Brown’s Stocking staging
The St. Augustine (Florida) Record reports that the Shores United Methodist Church will host the Children’s Express Theater performing “Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking” on Dec. 17 at 6 p.m. (via Religion notes for Dec. 12 | StAugustine.com.) I wonder whether they’re somehow adapting the story that originally ran in the December 1963 Good Housekeeping …
Recommended Peanuts book gifts
So, you want to get someone a Peanuts book present, but am not sure what? Here are my suggestions. The “I really want to impress you with a large, expensive, impressive gift” gift: Peanuts: Artist’s Edition, an amazing, seriously oversized book reproducing Peanuts from the original art The “You think you like Peanuts, …
a Schulz variant some got by Providence
If you’re a Schulz book collector who likes to get not only all the books, but every possible variant (not a path I recommend; that way lies madness!), you might want to get in touch with bridge-playing pals from the Northeast. Yesterday was the last day of the 2014 Fall …
Keep Calm and Do the Snoopy Dance cover
Here’s the cover for Keep Calm and Do the Snoopy Dance, shipping in July, and preorderable at discount.
Snoopy was never one to chase cars anyway
According to this KPBS report, California has gotten orders for about 4800 Snoopy license plates, but needs 2700 more before they’ll start production, and this process frequently takes a couple years. I’ve got my order in!
Changing schedules
The following upcoming books have moved on the schedule: Be Awesome, a gift book in the Peanuts Wisdom To Carry You Through series, has been moved back to next March. The kiddie books It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and You Got a Rock, Charlie Brown, pushed back to next …
Franklinspiration
This weekend’s radio show “Off-Ramp”, on the acclaimed Southern California public radio station KPCC, has a piece where they talk to Harriet Glickman, the woman inspired Schulz to add racially integrate the strip, along with Ken Kelly, who helped her on the campaign. But don’t hop in the car now …
A stage version of Schulz
Ah, the things you stumble on when looking for someone else. Apparently, someone’s written a stage play on Schulz’s life, and they staged it last month in Rhode Island. There’s a review of The Man Who Saw Snoopy here.
50 Years Of ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’
Here is some NPR coverage of this being the 50th consecutive year of airing A Charlie Brown Christmas. They have Jeannie Schulz and Lee Mendelson and some archival material of Schulz himself. The special airs tonight, the first of its two airings this year.