Surrounded by other kids with extremely commercial ideas about Christmas, Charlie Brown struggles to understand the true spirit of the holiday.

"When Charlie Brown's grandmother cancels Thanksgiving dinner, he and the Peanuts gang make up a new tradition for the holiday! They learn what matters most is being together!"--Back cover.

When "queen" Lucy takes over the treehouse the Peanuts gang built together, they follow the example of American colonists who gained liberty from the British king and declare their independence.

Based on the new Apple TV series, The Snoopy Show!, this fun-filled beginning reader finds Snoopy writing a book about his younger days, but Charlie Brown has some corrections!

Snoopy and Woodstock relive the memories of when they first met and became best friends.

"Snoopy sees something he wants to buy at Lucy's yard sale. There's just one problem: he has no money, and Lucy won't take dog bones. But Lucy says if Snoopy does some chores for her, he can have whatever he wants. Snoopy is all set and ready to work--or is he?"--

"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...