* COMPLETE PEANUTS: MORE DETAILS
\n
\n* NOT BOARD BOOKS AT ALL
\n
\n* MORE BABY SNOOPY
\n
\n* MOM, MEET DAD
\n
\n* A HALLMARK FOR THE UK?<\/p>\n
COMPLETE PEANUTS: MORE DETAILS<\/p>\n
\nFantagraphics has now made the official announcement of their
\nComplete Peanuts series, which means I can now share with you
\nthe cover:
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/CompletePeanuts.jpg
\n
\nAs you can see, it’s quiet, austere, and even melancholy,
\nall of which was intended by Seth, the cover designer.<\/p>\n
\nEach volume will be about 320 pages, 8.5 inches wide and 7
\ninches tall — not, perhaps, the luxuriously big collections
\nthat some had hope for, but with three dailies or one Sunday
\nstrip on each page, everything should be clear and
\nreadable. For those of you who think in terms of Peanuts
\nbooks, the strips will appear closer in size to how they
\nappear in the Peanuts Classics or Holt “full” books rather
\nthan the larger size of the Parades.<\/p>\n
\nThe first volume is slated for April Fool’s Day, 2004,
\nbut it’s no April Fool’s joke. The price is $28.95, a
\nreasonable price for a hardcover of this length… but
\nI suspect we’ll be able to get you a discount. I’ll let
\nyou knw when it’s ready to be ordered.
\n
\n==================================================================
\n
\nNOT BOARD BOOKS AT ALL<\/p>\n
\nA while back, I announced HELLO, WORLD! and SLEEPY TIME
\nas “board books”. I was wrong. While they are aimed at the
\nvery young set, they’re actually -cloth- books. Hello,
\nWorld! (not a C programming book, for all you fellow
\ncomputer nerds out there) features a head shot of Woodstock
\non its furry cover, and it’s all about Woodstock and Baby
\nSnoopy getting started with their day. Sleep Time, about
\nthem at the end of the day, matches that with a Baby Snoopy
\ncover. Each book is shaped to match the cover image, and
\nhas a mere 6 internal pages, soft and padded. Each comes
\nin its own plastic pouch with handle. All of the drawings
\nare fine, neither is a great piece of literature, but if
\nyou’re looking for a baby gift, these should do nicely.<\/p>\n
\nHELLO, WORLD!:
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0689863659<\/p>\n
\nSLEEPY TIME:
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0689863640
\n
\n==================================================================
\n
\nMORE BABY SNOOPY<\/p>\n
\nAlso now shipping is PUPPY DAYS, another book in the Ready-to-Read
\nline of kids books. Unlike the previous Peanuts books in this
\nseries, which were Level 2, this one is “Pre-Level 1”, aimed
\nnot at readers but at 2-5 year olds who should be able to
\nrecognize the words as you repeat them. The sentences are short,
\nmostly 3 words apiece. The story — if it could be called that,
\nit really just introduces the characters — is of Baby Snoopy
\nand the Daisy Hill Pups at their usual level of sticky sweetness
\nand humorouslessness. (Forgive me, but I have little affection
\nfor these characterless variations of viable characters.)<\/p>\n
\nPUPPY DAYS:
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0689859007
\n
\n==================================================================
\n
\nMOM, MEET DAD<\/p>\n
\nUnsurprisingly, the Ready-to-Read line will follow up next
\nApril’s GOOD GRIEF, IT’S MOTHER’S DAY with a book for kids
\nwith dads: IT’S FATHER’S DAY, CHARLIE BROWN.
\n
\n==================================================================
\n
\nA HALLMARK FOR THE UK?<\/p>\n
\nThanks to the keen eyes and able assist of one of you fine
\nAAUGH.com newsletter readers, I recently landed myself a copy
\nof IT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN TO YOU… LET ALONG A DOG, a little
\nhardcover book designed to serve as a get-well card. Hallmark
\npublished a number of these, but this one is particularly
\ninteresting, because it may never have been available in the
\nU.S. The copy I have comes from Britain, and the only other
\none I can locate is also in Britain. <\/p>\n
\nHowever, there is one weird clue that suggests there was a US
\nedition, perhaps in a greeting card format rather than a book
\nformat. Snoopy is in the hospital (actually refers to himself
\nas The World’s Famous Patient, of course!), getting annoyed
\nby the stream of visitors he gets. On one page, Pig-Pen
\n(inherenly a troublesome visitor in a sanitary environment)
\nnotices what’s on TV in the hospital room. The text of his
\nword balloon, however, looks different from the rest of the
\ntext in the book, as if it was painted in later. He says
\n“HEY, GREAT! THE DOCTOR WHO IS ON T.V.!” Between the
\ncapitalization and the clumsy wording, it’s not clear if
\nhe is looking at the doctor who is on TV, or if he is seeing
\nthe British science fiction show Doctor Who. The latter would
\ncertainly suggest that this replaced some reference to an
\nAmerican TV show in a US edition.<\/p>\n
\nI’d be interested to hear if any of you have copies… and
\nif so, just what Pig-Pen is saying on the next-to-last
\nspread.<\/p>\n
This book was printed in West Germany no earlier than 1966.
\n
\n==================================================================
\n
\nWell, that’s all the news and notes for now. But I do have
\nsome interesting books winging my way, and even an interview
\nin the offing, so this is not the last newsletter you’ll
\never get. Not by a long shot.<\/p>\n
As usually, send any questions, suggestions, rejections,
\ninspections, detections, excitements, incitements,
\nand peppermints to me at nat@AAUGH.com<\/p>\n
–Nat
\n
\n proprietor
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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