Paint-by-Number Kit now shipping
That Barnes&Noble-exclusive Classic Peanuts Paint-by-Number Kit including the Classic Peanuts: Great Moments book that I wrote is now shipping. I haven’t gotten my comp copies yet, so I can’t review it, but we can simply assume that it’s brilliant, moving, and a sure candidate for all the major book awards this year, right? Right?? …
The new gift books
I’ve received my copies of the new gift books Good Grief, It’s Your Birthday! and Cheer Up, Charlie Brown!, both of which are full-color mixtures of relevant quotes and strips. They’re fairly smoothly made, and should serve their purposes as much-more-than-a-card for someone going through something. The Birthday book focuses on quotes …
No poetry from Johnny
Regarding my comment on the oddness of Johnny Carson’s Happiness is a Warm Puppy-riffing book Happiness is a Dry Martini being copyrighted by “Cory-Richard Music, Inc.”, AAUGH Blog reader Jim noted that there is a much easier explanation for that name than being a reference to the classic poem. Cory and Richard …
Halloween Projects Kindle book
The new Kindle book Halloween Projects for the Family by KIngs R.C. (capitalization theirs, although they drop the oddity when they list the name inside as “R.C., Kings”) includes chapters on making Charlie Brown, Woodstock, Snoopy, and “Cool Snoopy”. It does not appear to be a licensed item.
Golden Brown
The sixty-fifth anniversary of Peanuts lineup has been joined by another volume, the paperback You’re Golden, Charlie Brown: 65 Years of Peanuts, which will come from Ballantine Books next June and can be preordered now.
Books for those who speak British
Currently winging its way to me are the first four volumes in the UK-only Peanuts Guides to Life series: Philosophy of Snoopy, The Wisdom of Woodstock, The Genius of Charlie Brown, and Life Lessons from Lucy. Other Peanuts books coming up in the UK: The Peanuts Guides to Life The Peanuts Guide to Love The …
Happiness is a Dry Martini
After the post I made about the various parodies and follow-ups to Happiness is a Warm Puppy (including the two I just reprinted), I received some questions about one that I’d mentioned, but did not show a picture of. Happiness is a Dry Martini is credited to Johnny Carson – yes, the …
Stuffs a-shippin’
September tends to be a big month for shipping books, particularly for things that are meant to be sold as Christmas gifts. Books that have already started shipping this month include: The gift book Cheer Up, Charlie Brown!: Getting Through Life One Laugh at a Time (which is not, I should note, …
My Confession
As I’ve mentioned in the past, while I try to bring you all the interesting Peanuts book information that I can, there are times that I have information that, due to professional obligations, I am not free to share. The post from last week about the Classic Peanuts Paint-By-Number Kit is …
Happiness Is Widely Copied
WARNING: This piece does include an announcement of something I’ve just published. Back when the Peanuts gift book Happiness is a Warm Puppy was published in 1962, it was huge. Not in size, it’s just about five and a half inches square, but in impact. This little thing spent forty-five weeks …