Peanuts All-Stars [Paperback]

Charles M. Schulz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 28, 2006

IT’S GAME TIME, CHARLIE BROWN!
From basketball and football to hockey and tennis—a brand-new collection of sports strips featuring the whole Peanuts team!

It’s all-star tryouts for Charlie Brown and all his friends. So the Peanuts are suiting up—ready to play ball and have a ball! They’ve been practicing their dribbles, slap shots, and passes. Sure, Snoopy may not serve aces, Woodstock is smaller than his hockey stick, Linus refuses to give up his blanket in the outfield, and Charlie Brown always fumbles the pigskin, but the these all-stars are great sports when it comes to playing fair and working together. In a comic strip sports extravaganza, the Peanuts show off their athletic expertise—and prove that it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game!

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345479823
• ISBN-13: 978-0345479822
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 0.7 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,303,055 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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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book, May 6, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Peanuts All-Stars (Paperback)

This book is a must for all Peanuts fans! Sunday strips are in color, and they sort the strips by sport

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great kids birthday gift, October 17, 2008

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This review is from: Peanuts All-Stars (Paperback)

This is the new go-to birthday gift from my 8-year-old son. He LOVES this book and friends who have received it love it, too!