Good deal alert!
Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, Chip Kidd’s lovely, frustratingly page number-less book of Peanutsy stuff, is more than half off at Amazon at the moment. I have no idea how long this will last, so order now!
Franklin on Ice!
Amazon may not be showing it yet on their listing for It’s Hockey Time, Franklin!, but we’ve got a (preliminary) cover here for you! Enjoy! Note that everyone has a closed-mouth smile. That’s so we can’t see if they’ve got any teeth knocked out yet, the sign of a true …
Coverses!
We’ve got some covers for upcoming board books. September brings us Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!, with plenty of time to integrate it into your holiday. Then there’s December’s Who’s Your Valentine, Charlie Brown? – it’s heart-shaped, it’s a book… that means that it’s a heart with a spine!
A Charlie Brown Christmas Wooden Collectible Set
Popping onto the September schedule is something called A Charlie Brown Christmas Wooden Collectible Set. What is it? Well, it’s published by Running Press, and it’s listed as a 32 page paperback, but the name suggests it has “stuff”. So I’m assuming it’s one of their “kits”, the little boxes with …
The Peanuts Character Whatever
We have a cover for the book that’s been announced as The Complete Peanuts Character Encyclopedia… only now it seems to have the title of The Complete Peanuts Family Album. It’s still by Andrew Farago. It is full of detail, and make a great trivia “how many can you name” challenge. …
It’s what Google and Stephen Colbert have in common
One of the thing that can slow down Peanuts research is the ability of Google to find Snoopy everywhere… even if it’s an illusion. For example, when searching for uses of the word “Snoopy” in books from the 19th century, Google served me up the following examples. Two guys named …
Jacky Ha-Ha
For those of us who consume audiobooks, the Peanuts books market is rather weak. After all, most of them are collections of comics or at least heavily-illustrated kids books where, if the text were recorded, it would take up just a few minutes of listening during one’s daily exercise regimen. …
The wrapping of the wrapping paper book
Ah, finally we have something that looks like an actual cover for the upcoming A Charlie Brown Christmas Wrapping Paper Activity Book. The few uncolored figures to the left look to me like ghosts in the composition. Maybe they’re the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future?
All the Peanuts statues
For a long time, Peanuts book collectors with an interest in the Peanuts statues that blanketed St. Paul and Santa Rosa in various years had to settle for the combination auction catalog/souvenir booklets that accompanied those displays, and some of them have been hard to find. But now there’s a book …
The Great American Story of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts Gang!
I got in my copy of The Great American Story of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts Gang!, which is a Ready-to-Read Level Three book that basically fills the same function as the Schulz biographies that are sold as parts of bulk kids biography sets. Having said that, this stands out as …