My inside elf at Wendys says…
The next new Wendy’s Kids Meal book, officially released next Monday, will be: Lucy Says. It’s about… Lucy! Which makes it sound like the cover will have… Lucy. If so, we’ll have reached the penultimate book without Charlie Brown being on the cover. It’s your last chance, Chuck!
It’s the It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown Deluxe Edition cover, Charlie Brown!
Here’s the cover to the upcoming deluxe edition of It’s the Easter beagle, Charlie Brown, a design match to the earlier deluxe books of the Christmas and Great Pumpkin Day specials. It’s due out for February.
Did you know there’s a book editon of A Charlie Brown Christmas?
The AAUGH Blogger is happy, and if the AAUGH Blogger is happy, odds are good that there’s a new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas. And there is! This isn’t a new-from-the-ground-up edition, however. It’s a version of the sound-button book that was a Hallmark exclusive last year. But …
Dept of Blanket Security
Ridge Rooms, who did a lot of design work on various Peanuts products that have come out over the past few years (although she – yes, Ridge Rooms is a she – is no longer working on Peanuts material) has a portfolio site which includes material I had not seen …
Trick or Treat or Look Or Find, Great Pumpkin
The It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Look and Find book is an oversized one of busy pictures, each of which has a handful of specific items your children (or, on a quiet day, yourself) is supposed to search for. This puts it in the same category as the Where’s …
That makes it the 22.8th anniversary, right?
Celebrating Peanuts, the 60th anniversary slipcased hardcover… well, the first of the two 60th anniversary slipcased hardcovers, and not the one I wrote… is now available from Amazon for 62% off its $75 list price. That brings it down to $28.86, a good deal, plus it qualifies for free shipping …
Great Pumpkin leaf globe and sticker book
The It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Leaf Globe set is a little boxed gift with a snow-globe-like object and a book of stickers. It’s published by Running Press, who make some nice books but whose boxed gifty things I usually find underwhelming. The good news is that the stickers …
Joe Ace, Flying Cool
Starting today, Build-a-Bear Workshops will be carrying a stuffed Snoopy, customizable with a range of outfit pieces (which, for those of you who have not experienced B-a-BW, is what their business is all about.) The figure has been available for online order for a few days… and pictured here is …
Now shipping and now orderable
Now orderable: The Complete Peanuts 1983-1984, introduction by Leonard Maltin! Now shipping: A Charlie Brown Christmas: With Sound and Music, the non-Hallmark version of last year’s Hallmark version. I will be covering this as soon as I get it in my CBChristmas-greedy hands! Also, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown …
Into the Sky with The Flying Ace – a review
The eighth of the ten Wendy’s Kids’ Meal books is Into the Sky with the Flying Ace. Throughout this, we see roughly the same image – a mid-range shot of Snoopy the Flying Ace sitting on his doghouse. Five of the pages are what you see here – The Flying …