It's A Home Run, Charlie Brown! [Library Binding]

Charles M. Schulz (Author, Illustrator), Nick Lo Bianco (Illustrator), Peter Lo Bianco (Illustrator), Judy Katschke (Contributor)

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Publication Date: April 1, 2002 | Series: Ready-To-Read: Level 2 Reading Together

Batter up! This season Charlie Brown hopes his team will finally win a game. But it's not easy being the manager! Can Charlie Brown score the winning home run and save his team?

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Charlie Brown and the gang are back in Ready-to-Reads! These level 2 & 3 Ready-to-Reads use more complex stories, varied sentence structure, and short chapters to entice emerging readers. Join Snoopy and the Peanuts gang for some laughs and lessons about friendship.

Spotlight is a division of ABDO Publishing Group. Grades PreK-4. Each Spotlight edition is printed on high-quality paper. We use the original publisher's files to adjust the book's layout so no artwork or text is near the gutter for our reinforced library bindings specifically printed for the library market. --This text refers to an alternate Library Binding edition.

Product Details

• Library Binding: 32 pages
• Publisher: Little Simon (April 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0689852630
• ISBN-13: 978-0689852633
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,466,515 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Remember when Charlies Brown tried to steal home?, March 8, 2004

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This review is from: It's A Home Run, Charlie Brown! (Ready-To-Read: Level 2 Reading Together) (Paperback)

If you know anything about Charlie Brown as a baseball player then you know that the title of this Ready-to-Read book, "It's a Home Run, Charlie Brown!" has a bit of irony in it. That is because when the cover proclaims that this book is based on the comic strips of Charles M. Schulz it is talking specifically about the ones where the score is tied 3 to 3 in the bottom of the 9th with two outs and the best hitter for the Peanuts gang up to bat. I have never figured out who that particular batter would be, but what matters is that Charlie Brown is on third base and thinking about stealing home. This would involve running really fast towards home, which would be a "home run," but not a home run. Charlie Brown is thinking that if he stole home and won the game for his team, which has never won a game before, that he would be a hero. But one of the other things we know about the wonderful world of "Peanuts" is that Charlie Brown never gets to be a hero.

It is certainly nice to see this classic "Peanuts" story dressed up for a new generation of readers. Old readers will recognize most of what is in here from various comic strips Schulz did decades ago, which will bring just as a much of a smile as you will find on the faces of youngsters reading these stories for the first time. "It's a Home Run, Charlie Brown!" is adapted by Judy Katshke with art by Nick and Peter LoBianco, who have nicely captured the classic look of the Peanuts gang in color. This is a Level 2 Ready-to-Read book, which means youngsters are learning to read independently with stories that are more-complex. Schulz's classic comic strips are ideal for such an endeavor and there are plenty of other "Peanuts" books in the series for kids to turn to next.