Peanuts Guide To Life (Hardcover)

by Charles M. Schulz (Author)

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Product Description
Essentially, this is the best of the best 50 years of Peanuts, the comic strip by the late Charles Schulz featuring Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy, and the rest of the beguiling little gang. Peanuts debuted in 1950 and became a global phenomenon, with book collections selling more than 300 million copies in 26 languages and television specials rerun year after year. To create this all-new Peanuts Guide to Life we've combed through decades of comic strips to find those single panels which contain such pithy observations as "Babysitters are like used cars. You never know what you're going to get," and bits of wisdom like "Never lick ice cream off a hot sidewalk." Each droll, stand-alone "speech bubble" or punchline appears with cartoon art. The panels are organized into short chapters, such as "Love" and "Life's Little Quirks." For the millions of faithful Peanuts fans, this is a collection of "greatest hits" to cherish and enjoy again and again.

About the Author

Charles Monroe Schulz (1922 -2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known for his Peanuts comic strip. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Dena and Carl Schulz. His nickname "Sparky" was given by his uncle, after the horse Spark Plug in the Barney Google comic strip. He attended St. Paul's Richard Gordon Elementary School, where he skipped two half-grades. As a result, he was the youngest in his class when he attended St. Paul Central High years later, which may have been the reason why he was so shy and isolated as a young teenager. After his mother died in February, 1943, he was drafted into the army and sent to Camp Campbell in Kentucky. He was then shipped to Europe two years later to fight in World War II. After leaving the United States Army in 1945, he took a job as an art teacher at Art Instruction Inc., which he attended before he was drafted. First published by Robert Ripley in his Ripley's Believe It or Not!, then in a series of chronicles, The Saturday Evening Post, his first regular comic strip, Li'l Folks was published in 1947 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. (It was in this strip that Charlie Brown first appeared, as well as a dog that looked much like Snoopy). In 1950 he approached the United Features Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. This strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957-1959), but abandoned that strip due to the demands of the success of Peanuts.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Running Press; illustrated edition edition (April 26, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762423374
• ISBN-13: 978-0762423378
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #257,649 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Book of Quotes, August 3, 2007

By	J. Franz (Oakland Ca) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is not a book of Strips. It is really a book of quotes sorted by subject matter... this could almost be made into Hallmark cards
For example the subject is Effort and the quote is Some of my best school papers have been written before breakfast.......Sally Brown
and on the opposing page is her examining her written work
The book is 128 pages
Probably one thing I was able to enjoy a little more in this book is Charles Schulz's artwork Like a close-up of Charlie Brown looking into an empty mailbox
And Charlie Brown laying flat on his back with circles around his head
Just little things like that.....
I did enjoy this book I gave it three stars cause I was disappointed it wasn't a book of strips, I like the new way they have of sorting the strips for us Baseball, other sports, School and of course Love and I thought this was another one.....
Maybe it didn't get four stars cause it was done too soon One quote a page You feel like a speed reader.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars peanut book, November 16, 2007

By	J. Ngai (Rego Park, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

small book, can finish reading it in 5 minutes, even though it is over 100+ pages.
Since I paid 1 cent for the book, I can't complain.
S/H was a fixed $3.99

32 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst Quality, May 29, 2005

By	Charlie Brown (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

The contents are OK, although not great. The paper used for this book and the
printing quality is the worst quality I have ever seen in my life.
You even don't want to use this kind of paper in the restroom.
It's a shame that our beloved Peanuts characters had to printed in there. It's a crime.
The publishers should be sued for Peanut characters molestation.
I'm an avid Peanuts fan and I'm greatly disappointed. I somehow expected
the similar quality of the Series: Friendship is ..", "Love is ..", "Happiness is ..."
"Hope is ..."