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Discounts

Cheap Peanuts books cheaper

Those hardcover Life Is Like a Ten-Speed Bicycle and On and Off the Field volumes have had their prices cut down to $3.99 over at BN. And while you’re there, you can get book adaptations of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown and Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown for 99 …

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Nat news

Meet the AAUGH Blogger and get free stuff

If anyone’s coming to the Wizard World comics convention in Anaheim, California this coming weekend, please stop by and say hi. I’ll be at table 1914 in Artist’s Alley. And while you’re saying “hi”… If you have a copy of The Peanuts Collection, I’ll be glad to sign it. (A …

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General

Clarification on the Sweet Dreams cloth book

Talking about the Sweet Dreams, Snoopy board books, I made a reference to a cloth book called simply Sweet Dreams, based on a seeing it at this Etsy shop. At the time I was thinking “hey, that’s hopefully the only one of the cloth books which I don’t have!” (it’s …

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Reviews

Snoopy’s friends are a bird and a book

As I’ve said before, I’m not a Peanuts collector, I’m a Peanuts book collector. But sometimes “Peanuts” and “book” collide in non-standard ways – witness this tiny pin just sent me from Malaysia:

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Nat news

Inherited Peanuts gene

My son is 20 months old now, and generally hasn’t paid much attention to the TV. That’s starting to change, but still, most of the time if he’s in the room and the TV is on, he’s busy doing something else, often pestering someone to help him page through one …

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New releases

But maybe there’s nothing new under the sun?

“But WAIT!” I hear you cry. “If Sweet Dreams, Snoopy is just a shortening of the Snoopy’s Doghouse Library book of the same name, perhaps other Wendy’s Kid’s Meal books are just shortenings of books from that esteemed library!” First off, you’re becoming obsessed. I can hear your voices screaming …

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New releases

A vital correction regarding Sweet Dreams, Snoopy

Last posting, I encouraged you not to confuse the different books entitled Sweet Dreams, Snoopy or some variant thereof. However, now that I have the new Wendy’s Kid’s Meal board book Sweet Dreams, Snoopy in my little Frosty-stained mitts, I can give you free rein to go ahead and confuse …

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Upcoming releases

Many Sweet Dreams for Snoopy

The local Wendy’ses are being slow to clear out their recent Kid’s Meal toy line focused on Pac-Man and friends –. well, not so much friends, as occasionally edible enemies — and not so fast to move on to the next batch, toys built around the hit TV show Wheel …

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New releases

And the fourth Kids Meal board book is

It’s Sweet Dreams, Snoopy., now available as the kids-under-3 Kid’s Meal toy at the Wendy’s hamburger chain. (So we’re doing at least 4 months in a row – is it possible there will be a new board book every month this year?!?) I’m up late just to post this information. …

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Classic finds

25th anniversary of a Peanuts book

With the upcoming release of not one but two fiftieth anniversary edition of Happiness is a Warm Puppy, I thought it was time to look at a volume I see surprisingly infrequently: the twenty-fifth anniversary edition. This edition came out in, ummm (runs out of fingers, starts to pull of …

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