Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Peanuts [Hardcover]

Charles M. Schulz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 30, 2010

The cast of Peanuts® characters has entertained us with their humorously insightful perspectives since 1950. A year-long marketing campaign by licensor United Media launched this Diamond Anniversary and creates the perfect setting for Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Peanuts®.

This small, hardcover book with all the gift appeal of a box of chocolates shows us why, in the sixty years since its debut, everything you need to know to get through life has been summed up by the gang from Peanuts. Within these pages, Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Sally, Peppermint Patty, Schroeder, and the rest impart their thoughts on friendship, music, love, food, baseball, proper grooming, and a host of other subjects through artwork and text from original Peanuts comic strips.

“When your life has been ruined, you should lie under a tree all afternoon.”—Charlie Brown on Nature

“Never set your stomach for a jelly-bread sandwich until you’re sure there’s some jelly.”—Linus on Nutrition

“It’s a scientific fact that girls are smarter than boys.”—Lucy on Advanced Biology

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Running Press (March 30, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762438592
• ISBN-13: 978-0762438594
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 6.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Cute and Totally Peanuts, May 14, 2010

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There are different topics accompanied with a Peanuts comic strip and helpful words of wisdom from a Peanuts character throughout the book. Great gift for any Peanuts fan and a definite pick-me up when you have one of those days that just need to be brightened.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Peanuts fan since it's creation, January 9, 2011

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I have followed Peanuts since I was a child and have collected
Charles Schultz materials from early on. This is a wonderful addition to my collection. Recommend it for any Peanuts fans out there!!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Sorry, This Has Been Done Much Better In The Past, October 10, 2010

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With so many great books out there about Peanuts, this one comes as a mild disappointment. What we have here is basically a small book of subject matter (humility, knowing when enough is enough) with a Peanuts comic strip to match the subject idea. Pearls of wisdom from the strip's main characters are also included, such as Linus: "Never set your stomach for a jelly-bread sandwich until you're sure there's some jelly" that might not work well as humor or insight when taken out of context from the daily or Sunday comic strips where they were found.

The idea of using quotes from the comic strip was done so much better in the early sixties by Charles M. Schulz's classic gift books such as: "Happiness is a Warm Puppy" and "Security is a Thumb and a Blanket." And, as it seems that the editors of this volume meant well enough in producing this book, without the input (magic) from Mr. Schulz in producing this work: "Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Peanuts" doesn't equal the earlier books that cover the very same ground as this.

I will always enjoy Peanuts, and will continue to collect the: "Complete Peanuts" series of all the newspaper comics, but this book doesn't add anything new or enlightening to the legacy of this great comic.
Two Stars.