Peanuts Classics The Ultimate Box Set [Hardcover]

Charles M. Schulz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2007 | Series: Peanuts

This one of a kind collection is a little gem that every fan of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, and the gang will cherish.  Packaged in an adorable replica of Snoopy’s red dog house, and with a limited print run during its first year in the market, it contains all eight classic titles AND The Peanuts Cookbook…which has been unavailable for over 30 years! Just lift the roof and see what’s inside:
Christmas is Together Time
Happiness is a Sad Song
Happiness is a Warm Puppy
Home is on Top of a Dog House
I Need All the Friends I Can Get
Love is Walking Hand in Hand
Security is a Thumb and a Blanket
Suppertime!

Each small volume is an appealing compendium of pithy Peanuts' wisdom: there's a quote on every spread along with a classic Schulz drawing. They're sweet but never saccharine, and resonate homely, simple truths--like "Happiness is a thumb and a blanket"--that are as relevant today as they were over 40 years ago. And the cookbook includes such tasty recipes as Charlie Brown’s Brownies, Snoopy’s Pizza, Patty’s Buttermilk Pancakes, and More Macaroni and Cheese, Please. Best of all, every book is just how readers remember it: the paper, the ink, even the lamination look and feel just like the originals.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 648 pages
• Publisher: Cider Mill Press; Gift edition (September 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933662719
• ISBN-13: 978-1933662718
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 8.7 x 6.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,027,517 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT!, October 3, 2007

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Douglas Allen (South Orange, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peanuts Classics The Ultimate Box Set (Hardcover)

I love that these books have been re-released. They ARE exactly as I remember them from being a kid. What I love about this age we live in is that it almost seems like time is folding in on itself when you can buy the same books you had as a child in 1973 in 2007. Very cool!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Snoopy's in the House... Dog House that is!, November 29, 2007

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Dr. Bonkers "Dr. Bonkers" (New York, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peanuts Classics The Ultimate Box Set (Hardcover)

Nice reproductions of the books. If you loved these gift books in the late 60's or early 70's, it's a treat to see them back in their original form and not colourised or with different artwork as some of the other books that are being sold abroad with the same titles as the books in this set. If you loved Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, you will love the rest of the books in this set. These books, despite what the naysayers expound in the negative reviews on this site, has the heart of Schulz in them unlike a lot of the later books which bear his name and mere re-interpretations of his art.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Took me back to my childhood!, April 10, 2009

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Cecilia Buffa "Buff" (NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peanuts Classics The Ultimate Box Set (Hardcover)

Love these books. I collected a few when I was in grade school. Now my teenagers are enjoying them all with me now.