Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Peanuts is a recently-released hardcover gift book. The format is pretty straightforward; on the left hand of most spreads is a topic one might need to learn about, and on the right hand is a Peanuts strip in which a characters demonstrates …
The little boxed set Snoopy & Woodstock: Best Friends comes with a little rubbery Snoopy figurine, a littler-but-not-littler-to-scale Woodstock figurine, and a little paperback book, about 3 inches square. The book is a strip reprint… well, kind of. The strips reprinted are abridged editions, each brought down to two select …
I’ve always liked the Peanuts Philosophers books, a series of small hardbacks published by Hallmark in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Each focuses on one character, running eleven strips where that character espouses some bit of philosophy on some topic. The strips are run borderless, one panel per page. …
Shipping in June is Peanuts 1970’s Collection volume 2, a DVD set which includes: Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown It’s Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown You’re the Greatest, Charlie Brown So that’s all the …
In one corner, we have Around the World with Charlie Brown, a 1988 Peanuts music book, with simplified music notation and a built-in keyboard. The right-hand page of each spread is a song – mostly old public-domain tunes, although they pay for “Over the Rainbow” and Joe Raposo’s “Sing” (it’s …
I got good reaction to my post on the traced Peanuts books from Poland, so I’ve done a bit more research. It looks like the three volumes of this set (that’s all there were, three) were the first Peanuts books ever in Poland… and the last for a couple of …
Know what can make me happy on a tough day? Getting a Peanuts book in the mail. Know what can make me very happy? Getting a Peanuts book published in a country not already reflected in my collection. Know what can make do a little dance? Getting a Peanuts book …
I still haven’t gotten clearance to talk about that October book. But for those of you who asked, there is more info to be linked to!