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Your Valentine’s Day Peanuts Pre-sent

So, are you behind with your Valentine’s Day shopping, still needing that little something special for that someone special, that Peanuts lover in your life? Well, you still have time to get that person… a preorder! That’s right, right now you can order A Valentine for Linus!, a Peanuts storybook (with …

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The AAUGH Blog Podcast: The Most Controversial Peanuts Book of All!

There are hundreds of Peanuts books, so many that most pass by without much public notice. But there was one that found itself the focus of a bit of a public tussle. In this episode, we explain why. For those who have listened to this episode, here’s the reference section. …

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Upcoming releases

Fall Fantagraphics Peanuts publications

The fall solicitations for Fantagraphics are now up, with no surprises – only just the usual things, on schedule. Not that that’s a bad thing mind you; I’m a big fan of both The Complete Peanuts and those huge color Peanuts Every Sunday collections. The Complete Peanuts: 1969-1970 (Vol. 10) Paperback Edition …

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Upcoming releases

Time to plan your Peanuts holiday purchases

A new batch of book solicitations have come in, for books shipping in the autumn of this year. In the kiddie book Happy Thanksgiving, Snoopy!, plans to go to grandma’s for Thanksgiving run into a problem, so everyone hangs with Joe Cool instead. In Snoopy’s Christmas Surprise, Snoopy’s brother Spike …

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The AAUGH Blog Podcast: Romance

This week’s podcast take a look at romance, both how Charles Schulz lived it and how he depicted it.

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Animated Peanuts

The bull has pulled the football away

Ach, I was wrong in a previous forecast; Ferdinand has had more legs than I expected, and The Peanuts Movie is once again the lowest-grossing feature film that Blue Sky Studios has released.

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The AAUGH Blog Podcast: What is a book, anyway?

The AAUGH.com Reference library has many, many Peanuts books… including a few things that aren’t quite books, and others that are barely books, and others that are books and more. We take an (audio) look at them here.

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New releases

Be Kind, Be Brave, Be You beview… er, review

On the market as of last week is Be Kind, Be Brave, Be You, a board book which is made up of three upbeat-positivity-type poems by Elizabeth Dennis Barton, with Peanuts illustrations by Scott Jerald. I actually found this one reasonably charming – I could see reading this to my kids …

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Animated Peanuts

Deluxe Pumpkin cover

Here we have a first look at the cover to It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Deluxe Edition, the new book adaptation which will hit sincere pumpkin patches (as well as Amazon) this July (and is available for preorder now, of course.) The cover is by the ever-talented Vicki Scott, and …

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Animated Peanuts

Out of the cellar

The Peanuts Movie, which had the distinction of being the best-reviewed film Blue Sky Studios ever produced (judging by both the Rotten Tomatoes aggregate score;  Metacritic puts in in second) also had the more dubious distinction of being Blue Sky’s lowest grossing film ever, bringing in $246 million worldwide. Now, …

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