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My First Peanuts: ABC: An Alphabet Adventure
The Peanuts gang is back―this time, to share with your little one!
This new ABC board book features your favorite classic comic strip in tiny-tyke form! Read along as your baby discovers the alphabet in Good ol' Charlie Brown style. Each letter explores the world of Peanuts with fun, simple sentences and colorful illustrations, perfect for making learning delightful!
This new ABC board book features your favorite classic comic strip in tiny-tyke form! Read along as your baby discovers the alphabet in Good ol' Charlie Brown style. Each letter explores the world of Peanuts with fun, simple sentences and colorful illustrations, perfect for making learning delightful!
24 pages, Board book
First published November 1, 2015
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Charles M. Schulz
3,021 books1,646 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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February 14, 2017
My two year old son Gino adores the Peanuts. From the movies to the books, I even found him stickers. It was no surprise when he darted towards this book in the library's board book section. Since we've gotten home he has carried it around constantly, asking me to read it a dozen times, and gets mad if you try to introduce a new book. Well it is time for this book to be returned to the library and as sad as my son will be this mama sure needs to retire this book to the see you next year pile. Good grief Charlie Brown! Until next time.
January 13, 2016
This is not an ordinary alphabet book that simply uses the Peanuts characters as a selling point. Rather, it is creatively accurate to the characters. Don't think "b is for blanket," think "Dr. Lucy delivers dubious advice."
October 9, 2018
Lots of fun big words, amusing situations, and our favorite Peanuts friends! My children love this book!
September 12, 2017
This book contains information about Charlie Brown and his adventures in his life with his friends while going through the alphabet. The strengths of this story are that when it was a certain letter, it highlighted the first letter presented. I also liked how it went through his life with his friends and it wasn't just all about Charlie Brown. Some issues it showed maybe that some of the words presented in the story may be hard for little kids to read or understand when they want to enjoy the book. This is helpful for teachers when presenting the alphabet to their students so that the students can understand each letter of the alphabet and how to spell some of the words later on. This is appealing for kids because it gets them engaged in the alphabet and shows them how to use these words or spell them later in life.
September 14, 2017
This Peanuts alphabet book takes you on an adventure with all of your favorite Peanuts characters. This book takes you through all of the letters of the alphabet with the use of alliterations. The letter that is featured on the page is highlighted in a vibrant color. This book would be perfect for teachers planning a lesson on the alphabet.
December 30, 2015
I may be a bit biased, being a longtime Peanuts fan, but I loved this book. It does a great job incorporating the characters' personalities with the words they use as examples of the letters. (Example: "Dr. Lucy delivers dubious advice.") The illustrations are colorful and fun, too.
I'm definitely going to buy a copy of this for my 1-year-old nephew, and I look forward to reading it to him.
I'm definitely going to buy a copy of this for my 1-year-old nephew, and I look forward to reading it to him.
June 1, 2016
I really liked this abc book where every page features a member of the peanuts gang and has multiple words that feature that letter but each page still captures a scene. I think that's what really appealed to me that each page had such cleaver placement of the letter while being a story in itself.
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