The new special Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown hits stores tomorrow, and Amazon is already shipping some copies (knowing they’ll take more than a day to arrive). But at the moment, they’re also offering some tempting prices on other Peanuts animated disks: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown …

For a while I’ve been keeping an eye on an upcoming book from Ravette Publishing in the UK. Ravette, who have been publishing Peanuts books for a long time, are a bit tough to track – they don’t even have a website that I can find. But the UK branch …

Here is a look at the third Wendy’s book (in order of finding, not in the order of them being issued), courtesy of AAUGH Blog reader Bill: It is copyright 2011, and it does credit Peanuts ownership to United Feature Syndicate. The UFS credit and the simpler bag design – …

AAUGH Blog reader Bill dropped a note that he dropped by his local Wendy’s in Colorado and scored not one, not two, but three different Peanuts board books! The first two are the volumes discussed earlier; the third one, All About Me, bears the United Feature Syndicate copyright on it, …

We interrupt this run of posts on fast food board books with these breaking news: The cover to The Complete Peanuts volume 16, shipping this fall, will look like this: We return you now to our usual nattering. (And yes, there is another post about board books on the way, …

The helpful Joanne has sent along scans of The World Famous Snoopy, and yes indeed, the back cover does still carry the old copyright information. The book does, however, have a 2011 copyright date, so it cannot be too old; this isn’t some volume left over from that month last …

Upon seeing my post yesterday about a possible kids board book at the Wendy’s fast food chain, AAUGH Blog reader Joanne dropped me a note to let me know that indeed, Wendy’s had a board book. She’d gotten one a couple weeks back, entitled World Famous Snoopy, showcasing Snoopy in …

As the AAUGH Blogger, I find out about new and upcoming Peanuts books through a variety of sources. Sometimes publishers let me know what’s going on, sometimes it’s research finding out what’s in the new catalogs, sometimes a blog reader will tip me off to something new, and sometimes is …

The bad economy – specifically, the California state budget crisis – is apparently slowing down efforts by the state’s museum organization to make an official Snoopy license plate available. My fellow Californians are of course suffering through myriad effects of the budget crisis, but you from out of state can …

Having now read through that first installment of In the Shadow of the Family Dog (it’s quite short; it is, after all, meant to be only an installment) I can assure people that this is not some hatchet job on Dena Hodges grandfather, Charles Schulz. Quite the opposite, as demonstrated …