"A mixed-panel format picture book biography of Charles 'Sparky' Schulz, creator of the beloved comic strip Peanuts. As a child, Charles split his free time between adventures outdoors with his friends and dog Spike, and daydreams and doodles inspired by the comics he loved to read. He longed to become a professional cartoonist, but saw his dreams deferred by unexpected challenges that laid ahead: military deployment to the European front of World...

"A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip--and the life lessons it can teach us--from a stellar array of writers and artists. Over the span of fifty years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture--hilarious, poignant, inimitable. Some twenty years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions...

"Now beginning readers can learn all about Charles M. Schulz's iconic comic strips, beloved characters, and the cartoons and movies in this nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read about the history of the Peanuts Gang! Did you know that many of the characters in A Charlie Brown Christmas were voiced by regular kids from the producer's neighborhood? Or that Charles M. Schulz had his first sketch published at age fourteen in the local newspaper's "Ripley's...

"Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in "only what's necessary." For fifty years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the world. In all, 17,897 strips were published, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being," according to Robert Thompson, professor...

¡Celebra actos cotidianos de bondad y valentía con la pandilla de Peanuts en este inspirador libro de cartón perfecto para regalos! Regala de corazón, que al final de la jornada... ser amable toma tiempo, pero no te cuesta nada. Es difícil ser valiente cuando levantas el vuelo. Es cierto: puedes caerte, ¡o puedes llegar al cielo! Ve a cantar bajo la lluvia si hacerlo te hace feliz. No hay nadie más como tú. ¡Tienes tu propia matriz! En esta...

"This glorious compilation of Peanuts Every Sunday is the debut volume that collects, for the first time ever, all the Peanuts strips that ran in everyone's newspaper on Sundays- each comic strip reproduced in vibrant, warm full color! In this luxurious hardcover reprinting that years 1952 through 1955, Charles Schulz introduces Schroeder, Lucy, and Linus to his archetypal Peanuts cast of Charlie Brown and Snoopy."--Back of jacket.

In this volume of The Complete Peanuts, Charlie Brown found guilty by the EPA of dentally assaulting the Kite-Eating Tree, goes on the lam and ends up coaching the diminutive Goose Eggs baseball team. New characters include the doghouse-dicing neighbor cat and the talking schoolhouse plus tennis fun with Snoopy and two more newcomers, the cantankerous Molly Volley and Crybaby Boobie.

"The Complete Peanuts reaches the go-go mid-1980s with this volume: 'mallies, ' 'punkers' (Snoopy with a mohawk!), killer bees, and Halley's Comet. The gang go to 'rain camp' and 'survival camp, ' the World War I Flying Ace comes down with the flu, Charlie Brown poses for a swimsuit calendar, Peppermint Patty gets a crabby tutor ... plus Molly Volley, the unbearable, licensable 'Tapioca Pudding, ' and plenty of Spike and his cactus!"-- cover page...

This volume of 'The Complete Peanuts' is particularly romance-heavy as the Charlie Brown/Peppermint Patty/Marcie triangle heats up; love blossoms between two of the "Beagle Scout" birds; and Linus is still not Sally's "Sweet Babboo"! Meanwhile, Charlie Brown becomes, in his worst baseball-related humiliation to date, a Pelican -- and Snoopy's brother Spike is still stuch in Needles, surrounded by coyotes, with a cactus his only friend. --p.[4] of...