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Peanuts Coronet #19
We Love You, Snoopy
And here he is - Snoopy, the thinking dog's thinking dog - Profound! Witty! Debonair! No wonder
We Love You, Snoopy
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Selected cartoons from Snoopy Come Home, Vol. 1
Selected cartoons from Snoopy Come Home, Vol. 1
128 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1970
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Charles M. Schulz
3,037 books1,645 followersCharles 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 the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post; the first of 17 single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped from the Pioneer Press in January, 1950.
Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. The 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 he abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he contributed a single-panel strip ("Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to Youth, a publication associated with the Church of God.
Peanuts ran for nearly 50 years, almost without interruption; during the life of the strip, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in late 1997. At its peak, Peanuts appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Schulz stated that his routine every morning consisted of eating a jelly donut and sitting down to write the day's strip. After coming up with an idea (which he said could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours), he began drawing it, which took about an hour for dailies and three hours for Sunday strips. He stubbornly refused to hire an inker or letterer, saying that "it would be equivalent to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts for him." In November 1999 Schulz suffered a stroke, and later it was discovered that he had colon cancer that had metastasized. Because of the chemotherapy and the fact he could not read or see clearly, he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999.
Schulz often touched on religious themes in his work, including the classic television cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features the character Linus van Pelt quoting the King James Version of the Bible Luke 2:8-14 to explain "what Christmas is all about." In personal interviews Schulz mentioned that Linus represented his spiritual side. Schulz, reared in the Lutheran faith, had been active in the Church of God as a young adult and then later taught Sunday school at a United Methodist Church. In the 1960s, Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as being consistent with parts of Christian theology, and used them as illustrations during his lectures about the gospel, as he explained in his bestselling paperback book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, the first of several books he wrote on religion and Peanuts, and other popular culture items. From the late 1980s, however, Schulz described himself in interviews as a "secular humanist": “I do not go to church anymore... I guess you might say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in.”
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 the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post; the first of 17 single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped from the Pioneer Press in January, 1950.
Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. The 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 he abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he contributed a single-panel strip ("Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to Youth, a publication associated with the Church of God.
Peanuts ran for nearly 50 years, almost without interruption; during the life of the strip, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in late 1997. At its peak, Peanuts appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Schulz stated that his routine every morning consisted of eating a jelly donut and sitting down to write the day's strip. After coming up with an idea (which he said could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours), he began drawing it, which took about an hour for dailies and three hours for Sunday strips. He stubbornly refused to hire an inker or letterer, saying that "it would be equivalent to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts for him." In November 1999 Schulz suffered a stroke, and later it was discovered that he had colon cancer that had metastasized. Because of the chemotherapy and the fact he could not read or see clearly, he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999.
Schulz often touched on religious themes in his work, including the classic television cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features the character Linus van Pelt quoting the King James Version of the Bible Luke 2:8-14 to explain "what Christmas is all about." In personal interviews Schulz mentioned that Linus represented his spiritual side. Schulz, reared in the Lutheran faith, had been active in the Church of God as a young adult and then later taught Sunday school at a United Methodist Church. In the 1960s, Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as being consistent with parts of Christian theology, and used them as illustrations during his lectures about the gospel, as he explained in his bestselling paperback book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, the first of several books he wrote on religion and Peanuts, and other popular culture items. From the late 1980s, however, Schulz described himself in interviews as a "secular humanist": “I do not go to church anymore... I guess you might say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in.”
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December 30, 2021
these classic peanuts collections are always a nice easy comfort 🖤
October 21, 2018
Yes, we do love you, Snoopy!
November 28, 2018
Cute, simple, a collection of comics focusing on Snoopy with no other tie-ins or actual story lines.
November 24, 2021
Every page elicits either a smile or a laugh out of me, as expected. It's a magic that seems to no longer be found these days.
September 1, 2014
Profound insights from a Beagle. So many truths can be gleaned from these simple cartoons. O how I miss the simpler times...
June 24, 2020
One of the first Peanuts books I enjoyed as a six year old and now I've read it again after four decades on the Internet Library. The memories are back, and every one of them is bittersweet, somewhat sad yet very pleasant. Sad, since after I'm gone this joy will never be mine anymore. Pleasant....because this is Snoopy we're honoring here! Classic strips from the late Charles Schulz show Snoopy the legendary beagle coming of age and maturing with his own voice (in thought balloons). Snoop plays Polkas, Schottisches and Waltzes on his accordion to irritate the Beethoven loving Schroeder. Snoop becomes the world's first Whirly-Dog with ears transformed into helicopter blades! Snoopy claims to share his pad with no one, not even the yellow birds who fly by, but that will change. (In later years a yellow bird named Woodstock....but that's in later years!) We see Snoop pondering universal truths, having fond memories of puppyhood, then balk as he realizes it could be a sign he's in his last year's. He's fearfully paranoid, yet defiantly arrogant, and the most human of all dogs in fiction. He's really us, same as Charlie Brown is us. Which is why.... We. Love You Snoopy! THIIIIIIIS MUUUUCH!
Four stars
Beagle-Mania lives on!!!
Four stars
Beagle-Mania lives on!!!
October 16, 2023
I have a 1978 printing of this book. It features strips from the mid 50s to the early 60s, all with Snoopy as the main character. Sometimes he’s doing oh-so-recognisable dog things, sometimes he’s going surreal and flying by spinning his ears. The strips where he’s interacting with birds lay the ground for Woodstock’s arrival. With such a timespan covered in this book, the editors have allowed some repetition with other collections in the series and also have isolated strips from the gag series they belong in, thereby weakening the joke. Not good. Nevertheless, these strips are all a joy to read time and again.
July 14, 2021
"We Love You, Snoopy."
Like chewing gum with no flavour, there's just nothing really in this.
A few exceptions are 'There go some more birds flying south for the winter... I suppose someone should tell all the worms it's safe to come up now.."
I suspect that the nostalgia factor to a US audience means everything. **
Like chewing gum with no flavour, there's just nothing really in this.
A few exceptions are 'There go some more birds flying south for the winter... I suppose someone should tell all the worms it's safe to come up now.."
I suspect that the nostalgia factor to a US audience means everything. **
July 3, 2018
1st Read: June 20, 2018
It made me smile to myself a few times. It isn't story enough for me to keep it in my collection. I prefer a solid character development to truly enjoy a book. This is hard to do with the Peanuts gang, as my generation knows them already.
It made me smile to myself a few times. It isn't story enough for me to keep it in my collection. I prefer a solid character development to truly enjoy a book. This is hard to do with the Peanuts gang, as my generation knows them already.
March 11, 2020
Very funny, I loved this as a kid!
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December 8, 2021good
April 1, 2022
Such an awesome read of some of Schulz’s best works- although Snoopy is the star, it features most of the Peanuts gang characters- such a treasure!
January 15, 2023
4.2 stars
September 16, 2025
Brilliant as always.
Read
November 8, 2025Very cute and good
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June 13, 2011Selected from Snoopy Come Home (where are all these original collections?)
Snoopy has a lot of trouble with his neighbors in this book, including some birds holding meetings. Snoopy considers warning others about their diabolical plans--then concludes that eventually we'll find out anyway.
This book contains one of my favorite strips, in which Linus says stiffly to Lucy "I think if I had MEANT 'whirlybird' I would have SAID 'whirlybird'". I used this as my tagline one year.
These cartoons are from ~1955-1962--in other words, mostly pretty early. It's one of several that I bought used for face value.
Snoopy has a lot of trouble with his neighbors in this book, including some birds holding meetings. Snoopy considers warning others about their diabolical plans--then concludes that eventually we'll find out anyway.
This book contains one of my favorite strips, in which Linus says stiffly to Lucy "I think if I had MEANT 'whirlybird' I would have SAID 'whirlybird'". I used this as my tagline one year.
These cartoons are from ~1955-1962--in other words, mostly pretty early. It's one of several that I bought used for face value.
October 1, 2025
“We Love You Snoopy” by Charles Schultz
Characters in Charles Schultz’s book “We Love You Snoopy” include Peanuts carton personalities Linus Van Pelt and his sister Lucy, Charlie Brown, Snoopy the beagle, friends Peppermint Patty and Marcie, piano player Schroeder, and Pig Pen. The cartoon depictions and storylines in Schultz’ book “We Love You Snoopy” was released in multiple editions published by Fawcett Crest Books which is a unit of CBS Publications. The book in my collection was reprinted by Holt, Reinhardt, and Winston Inc. with copy-writes from 1950 thru 1962. I enjoyed the book’s humor, storyline graphics, and wonderful wisdom very much. (P)
Characters in Charles Schultz’s book “We Love You Snoopy” include Peanuts carton personalities Linus Van Pelt and his sister Lucy, Charlie Brown, Snoopy the beagle, friends Peppermint Patty and Marcie, piano player Schroeder, and Pig Pen. The cartoon depictions and storylines in Schultz’ book “We Love You Snoopy” was released in multiple editions published by Fawcett Crest Books which is a unit of CBS Publications. The book in my collection was reprinted by Holt, Reinhardt, and Winston Inc. with copy-writes from 1950 thru 1962. I enjoyed the book’s humor, storyline graphics, and wonderful wisdom very much. (P)
August 3, 2025
My dad picked this up at a thrift shop for 25¢, and I’m so glad he did! We Love You, Snoopy is a charming collection of classic Peanuts comics; so classic, in fact, that Woodstock hadn’t even been introduced yet, and Linus is wearing prescription glasses. These strips are a wonderful reminder of how timeless Charles Schulz’s characters really are. Simple, funny, and full of heart, this was such an enjoyable and nostalgic read. Sometimes the old stuff really is the best.
December 6, 2008
My book is from '62.
April 29, 2009
Most vivid memory, Snoopy and the EVIL BIRDS PLOTTING THEIR EVIL BUSINESS! I love how they just "spoke" in exclamation marks. :D
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September 29, 2019
I read this in ten minutes. :)
March 25, 2013
I liked it because Snoopy, Charlie Brown's dog, was flying around using his ears as propellers. It was silly.
September 24, 2013
Will anything ever be as funny as the whirlydog comics?
November 5, 2023
Such a sweet anthology of sorts and a very good casual read 🫶🏼
May 20, 2024
Alway a good comic to read.
May 16, 2009
Snoopy CARES about his cholesterol level!!
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