Trick or Treat: A Peanuts Halloween [Paperback]

Charles M. Schulz (Author)

Book Description

Series: Peanuts | Publication Date: September 28, 2004

CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN WITH GOOD FRIENDS,
SPOOKY FUN, AND PLENTY OF LAUGHS!

Give yourself a treat (no tricks attached!) with this hilarious collection of more than one hundred Halloween strips. Tag along as the Peanuts Gang rings doorbells for candy, bobs for apples, and scares their friends. Will Charlie Brown receive some chocolate this year or another sack of rocks? Which of Snoopy’s many daydreams will inspire a costume? Which witch is Lucy? And will Linus finally meet the Great Pumpkin? Interspersed throughout these delightful comic strips are cool Halloween tips, including costume ideas, party hints, and delicious snack recipes.

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CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN WITH GOOD FRIENDS,
SPOOKY FUN, AND PLENTY OF LAUGHS!

Give yourself a treat (no tricks attached!) with this hilarious collection of more than one hundred Halloween strips. Tag along as the Peanuts Gang rings doorbells for candy, bobs for apples, and scares their friends. Will Charlie Brown receive some chocolate this year or another sack of rocks? Which of Snoopy's many daydreams will inspire a costume? Which witch is Lucy? And will Linus finally meet the Great Pumpkin? Interspersed throughout these delightful comic strips are cool Halloween tips, including costume ideas, party hints, and delicious snack recipes.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (September 28, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345464133
• ISBN-13: 978-0345464132
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.3 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,571,513 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 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Like Getting A Few Rocks in your Treats Bag, November 29, 2004

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This review is from: Trick or Treat: A Peanuts Halloween (Paperback)

This book was a mixed treat. For a book entitled A Peanuts Halloween it could have been a much better editorial effort. It fails to really capture the warmth of Schulz's vision of Halloween by presenting the strips effectively. The Halloween activities were extremely basic -- other activity and craft books are far better in that regard. The selection of strips was also not very good. Everything is printed in black, orange and white only --hard to view for very long. It also is not a complete chronological collection of Great Pumpkin strips and there are no full color strips included at all. I expected more for Halloween, just like Sally, Linus and Charlie Brown; and I got a lot less. I now really know how the Peanuts gang feels when disappointment hits with the realization that great expectations are not met. If you are a die-hard Great Pumpkin fan, then get this book. If you like an authentic dose of that uneasy feeling that comes with frustration, disillusionment and dissatisfaction, then get this book.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars HALLOWEEN FUN WITH THE PEANUTS, January 6, 2005

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Tim Janson (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trick or Treat: A Peanuts Halloween (Paperback)

I'll admit to being a somewhat casual reader of comic strips. I have a few favorites I follow regularly, but around the holidays such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas is really when I sit down and read a lot of newspaper strips. I guess I just love seeing how they celebrate the holidays and their usually quite funny.

This collection of Peanuts strips is all about Halloween as Charlie and the gange go trick-or-treating, have parties, and dress up for the season. It's not a complete collection of all of Schulz strips to be sure, but it's a nice, representative gathering of material culled from over the years. also included throughout is mostly forgettable tips for throwing parties, decorating, and recipes. None of it worth much and I would have preferred to see more comics and some in color as opposed to that stuff. all in all a nice collecton.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT PEANUTS HALLOWEEN BOOK!!!, October 3, 2004

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This review is from: Trick or Treat: A Peanuts Halloween (Paperback)

I highly recommend this book, especially for any die-hard Peanuts fan. It was wonderful to see how Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the gang changed over time. And I happen to like Schulz's humor better when he first started writing and drawing; it was more childlike.

The comics are Halloween and monster themed and some of them are hilarious, ones I haven't seen in a long time. Of course there is lots about "The Great Pumpkin" but how could it be coming Halloween and Linus does not mention him!

Read it and enjoy. Good old fashioned comics and humor!