I Need All The Friends I Can Get (Peanuts) [Hardcover]

Charles M. Schulz (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 72 pages
• Publisher: Cider Mill Press (November 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933662395
• ISBN-13: 978-1933662398
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,007,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Charles M. Schulz was born November 25, 1922 in Minneapolis. His destiny was foreshadowed when an uncle gave him, at the age of two days, the nickname Sparky (after the racehorse Spark Plug in the newspaper strip Barney Google).

In his senior year in high school, his mother noticed an ad in a local newspaper for a correspondence school, Federal Schools (later called Art Instruction Schools). Schulz passed the talent test, completed the course and began trying, unsuccessfully, to sell gag cartoons to magazines. (His first published drawing was of his dog, Spike, and appeared in a 1937 Ripley's Believe It Or Not! installment.) Between 1948 and 1950, he succeeded in selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post--as well as, to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press, a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks. It was run in the women's section and paid $10 a week. After writing and drawing the feature for two years, Schulz asked for a better location in the paper or for daily exposure, as well as a raise. When he was turned down on all three counts, he quit.

He started submitting strips to the newspaper syndicates. In the spring of 1950, he received a letter from the United Feature Syndicate, announcing their interest in his submission, Li'l Folks. Schulz boarded a train in June for New York City; more interested in doing a strip than a panel, he also brought along the first installments of what would become Peanuts--and that was what sold. (The title, which Schulz loathed to his dying day, was imposed by the syndicate). The first Peanuts daily appeared October 2, 1950; the first Sunday, January 6, 1952.

Diagnosed with cancer, Schulz retired from Peanuts at the end of 1999. He died on February 13, 2000, the day before Valentine's Day--and the day before his last strip was published--having completed 17,897 daily and Sunday strips, each and every one fully written, drawn, and lettered entirely by his own hand--an unmatched achievement in comics.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BRINGS BACK MEMORIES, September 1, 2007

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Marty Kingsley "The Omega Geek" (West Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Need All The Friends I Can Get (Peanuts) (Hardcover)

How my ratings work:
5 - I really liked/loved it
4 - I liked it
3 - Could've been better/worth a look
2 - Just didn't live up to the potential
1 - Simply awful

I first read this when I was 8 years old at my school library. I've been a fan of Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang since I first saw the cartoons (it was before I could read that I saw the cartoons) and read the comics whenever I could. Peanuts is a timeless classic, since it gives no specific time and place, it just shows kids being kids. I don't own a copy of this book yet, and I haven't read it in so long, but I'll never forget it. It's simple (like all peanuts stories), but also incredibly touching (so not so simple), as the title says Charlie Brown wants all the friends he can get. Everyone can relate to that, I'm so greatful for the friends I have. So I can't wait to get my copy of this and read it again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just like they were and same feeling, February 6, 2010

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Jdog - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Need All The Friends I Can Get (Peanuts) (Hardcover)

I am a die hard fan of Charlie Brown and the peanuts. Every year I watch the peanuts on television before Christmas, Halloween, etc. I used to read the comics and books when I was a kid and I forgot about them for a few years once I went away to collage. I bought this book just a few weeks ago at Barnes & Noble. I love this book it shows the true meaning of friends and how much they mean to you.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love these little Peanuts books!, June 24, 2008

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Mary M (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Need All The Friends I Can Get (Peanuts) (Hardcover)

Thank you to whoever republished these little gems!!! I had a couple when I was in elementary school and now as an adult have bought all of them!