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It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Peanuts Holiday TV Specials)
Join the PEANUTS gang as they get ready for a night of trick-or-treating, bobbing for apples, and pumpkin patches. In this faithful adaptation of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, young readers are introduced to the classic tale in a deluxe Peanuts format—this hardcover edition which makes a stunning addition to any PEANUTS collection.
Hardcover, 48 pages
Published
August 10th 2010
by Running Press
(first published 1966)
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I love Halloween. I love that it's both transgressive and social, sending kids out of the house to threaten neighbors for candy. I love that it's well hated by all kinds of people: not Christian enough for certain kinds of Christians, not secular enough to be accessible to other religious adherents, setting off a tizzy of anxiety from parents and authority figures about razor blades and sex offenders and vandalism. I was a pretty law-abiding teenager, but I remember fondly soaping windows, smash...more
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Yeah, another cool Charlie Brown book. This one features the Great Pumpkin (GP). At the outset of this slender volume, Linus is writing a note: "Dear Great Pumpkin, I am looking foreward to your arrival on Halloween night." Snoopy and Lucy thought it was foolhardy, whereas Sally bought into the idea. . . . The nature of GP? Lines says that "Each year on Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere and flied through the air w...more
In this book, Linus persists on his quest to wait for the Great Pumpkin to come on Halloween to give gifts to all of the good girls and boys. His sister Lucy carries him home from the pumpkin patch after finding him asleep. This is a fun book for Halloween to show how differently people interpret holidays.
There is absolutely no reason for this book to exist except to make money from parents nostalgic for the TV program. Watch the DVD but please don't waste your money on this poorly written "deluxe collector's edition". (Your $16.95 could be so much better spent on hundreds of other picture books!).
We have this book as an interactive book app for our nookCOLORs in our house...we LOVE it! Not only do the kids in the house love it (my 8 year old son, as well as the kids I provide child care for during the week), but I love it, too! What a great way to get into the autumn mood!
Snoopy. Linus waiting in the pumpkin patch. Lucy screaming "AUGH! my lips touched dog lips!" And Charlie Brown's "I got a rock." What else can I say? It's a classic, whether on TV or in book form. Perfect Halloween reading!
This is the second worst book I've ever read. My biggest fear is that someday this will be Tess' favorite book and she'll ask me to read it to her each night. I should probably just get rid of it now.
This is one of the books my dad would read to me every year. ( and watch the movie). Now I read it to my daughter, who I hope will read it to her kids. I truly love this book.
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and the Garfield Halloween special are about the only things I like about this "holiday." It's nice to have it in book form.
I wanted more because it was so entertaining. It would have been good if we had a spooky tale told at the party and if Linus had actually gone looking for the GP after fainting. Still, it is a classic.
I would use this book with third, fourth, and even fifth graders. I would do sequential order and
characterization with this story.
characterization with this story.
Great adaption of one of the all time great cartoon holiday specials.
" I got a rock."
" I got a rock."
Snoopy rocks and so does The Great Pumpkin!
you can't have halloween without costumes, candy, and charlie brown.
the next day charlie brown tried to make linus feel better. "don't take it too hard. i've done a lot of stupid things in my life too."
"waiting for the great pumpkin isn't stupid!" linus replied. "just wait until next year, charlie brown. you'll see. i'll find a pumpkin patch that's real sincere and i'll wait until the great pumpkin rises up..."
and who k...more
the next day charlie brown tried to make linus feel better. "don't take it too hard. i've done a lot of stupid things in my life too."
"waiting for the great pumpkin isn't stupid!" linus replied. "just wait until next year, charlie brown. you'll see. i'll find a pumpkin patch that's real sincere and i'll wait until the great pumpkin rises up..."
and who k...more
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Charlie Brown/Great Pumpkin enthusiasts
It took me a year to discover that this book was out. I had no idea. It not only features an engaging history of how the legendary TV special was made (and aired only two months before my birth), but it also features the complete, illustrated screenplay by Charles M. Schulz, which also features additional dialogue that was not in the film. Fear not! This pulling-back-the-curtain book does not take away any of the magic of the Great Pumpkin, but actually enhances it.
Eh, the movie was better. You'd think they'd stick to the script already provided. I really don't like when there's a book after a movie, or a movie after a book and they don't respect the original work.
In case the tooth fairy, Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus weren't enough. Linus is sort of the Yes, Virginia of Halloween. Perhaps he would have had better luck had he written a letter to the editor at the Chicago Sun Times!
Love the vinyl clings in this book but found out that it's a bit to advanced for my two-year old that just wants to run around with the clings in her hands and crush them.
Always loved Charlie Brown. Just a fun book to read
This is a classic. You just can’t have Halloween without Linus waiting in the pumpkin patch and Charlie Brown ending up with his bag full of rocks.
Always a popular book to read out loud to the kids, they absolutely love the story.
arg, my library doesn't have this. Going to try and track down a used copy.
Schulz is a classic. It certainly shows here. Fun and endearing.
Level: Intermediate
The classic Peanuts Halloween story.
The classic Peanuts Halloween story.
I like the classic show more. Is that so wrong?
awesome "its the great pumpkin charlie brown"
how can you not love this story?!?!?!
A great classic for kids
It Charlie Brown GOOD
A classic revealed.
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Charles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.
Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied...more
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Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied...more
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