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Strolling back through my upcoming book The Peanuts Collection<\/strong><\/a>, we’re up to, let’s see, page 26, which is a spread about Peanuts licensing. The decoration on this spread are largely of books – a Peanuts Datebook from 1962 (an early Determined Productions product), of the Woman’s Sports Foundation’s Cookbook<\/em> (with Sparky’s recipe for Cold Cereal), of Snoopy’s Daily Dozen<\/em>… even the interactive item is the cover of The Snoopy Doghouse Cookbook<\/em>, which opens to reveal the recipe for “cookie bones”. And hey, there’s a Peanuts illustration that Schulz did for a physics textbook!<\/p>\n

\"\"Turn the page, and we’re on to a spread about Pig-Pen, or “Pigpen”, or “Pig-Pen”, depending on which era of the strip you’re looking at. (And there’s a statue pictured which says “Pig Pen”, just to confuse things more.) A bit of editorial discussion went into this spread, because he’s one of the characters who looms larger in public memory than he ever did in the strip.<\/p>\n

The next spread is on Peanuts in the classroom, discussing a number of ways which the strip and its characters were used in educational realms.\u00a0 Following that is a spread on how Peanuts is linked to music, from classical to jazz to rock. I got a couple nice quotes from John Burdett, drummer for The Royal Guardsmen, who recorded a number of Snoopy-related songs including “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron”, which hit as high as #2 on the Billboard chart. Some nice illustrations of album covers, music-oriented strips…. and ooh, the cover of Toccata E… Fuga<\/em>, one of my all-time favorite Peanuts book covers. (It’s an Italian book of nothing but Lucy-and-Schroeder-at-the-piano strips.)<\/p>\n

We’re just past the halfway point in hte book. There is work to be done, so the next spread, with the tipped-in reproduction of a publication discussed recently on this blog, will have to wait until next time.<\/p>\n

If you have a favorite bookstore and want to preorder, the ISBN is 978-0316086103 (US edition), 978-1741730685 (Australian edition), or 978-1-84773-827-1 (UK edition.) For those who like to order from your favorite online sites, here are the links:<\/p>\n