Peanuts: It's Your Year, Charlie Brown! is Charlie Brown's heartwarming and hilarious journal detailing a year in his life. Follow his ups and downs as he tangles with the menace of the Kite-Eating Tree, attempts to win a season of baseball, and deals with the hardship of unrequited love. Meet the whole Peanuts gang in this laugh-out-loud book and find out if this will be Charlie Brown's year. Good grief!
Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang. In postwar America, there was no newspaper comic strip more recognizable than Charles Schulz's Peanuts. It was everywhere, not just in thousands of daily newspapers. For nearly fifty years, Peanuts was a mainstay of American popular culture in television, movies, and merchandising, from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to the White House to the breakfast table. Most people have come to associate Peanuts with the innocence of childhood, not the social and political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. Some have even argued that Peanuts was so beloved because it was apolitical. The truth, as Blake Scott Ball shows, is that Peanuts was very political. Whether it was the battles over the Vietnam War, racial integration, feminism, or the future of a nuclear world, Peanuts was a daily conversation about very real hopes and fears and the political realities of the Cold War world. As thousands of fan letters, interviews, and behind-the-scenes documents reveal, Charles Schulz used his comic strip to project his ideas to a mass audience and comment on the rapidly changing politics of America. Charlie Brown's America covers all of these debates and much more in a historical journey through the tumultuous decades of the Cold War as seen through the eyes of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang.
Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the whole "Peanuts" gang are featured in a brand-new, full-color collection of cartoons from the world's most popular comic strip.
Good grief-another year has passed! And it's time to celebrate with Charlie Brown. This book is filled with birthday wishes and wisdom from the one and only Peanuts gang. This festival of happiness will delight anyone on their special day, no matter what age. Featuring timeless quotes and classic comic strips to help you get over the fact that you're headed into another year. I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. —Charlie Brown In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. —Charlie Brown If it seems too complicated, make it easy on yourself...just send money. How about tens and twenties? —Sally von Pelt
Comic strips starring Linus, Sally, Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and more beloved characters—“relevant and funny for all ages generation after generation.” —Good Comics for Kids, a School Library Journal Blog Everyone’s favorite classic characters are back: Peppermint Patty enrolls in a private school to end her academic troubles—only to discover she’s just graduated from obedience school. Linus finds himself entangled in a love triangle (and stuck on top of a snow-covered roof). And Charlie Brown runs away from the law and becomes a vagrant baseball coach. The Peanuts crew is lovable, popular, and charming, but please, whatever you do, don’t call Linus “My Sweet Babboo”!
The Peanuts Story Book is a great way for children to get to know the loveable characters of the Peanuts gang. With 12 illustrated short stories based on the original cartoon strips and laughs aplenty, readers new to Charlie Brown and friends will love the scrapes they get into.
