Snoopy: Cowabunga!: A PEANUTS Collection (Volume 1) (Peanuts Kids) - Softcover

Schulz, Charles M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449450792 ISBN 13: 9781449450793

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

What began in the funny pages in 1950 has developed into an enduring classic. Whether you're a fussbudget like Lucy, philosopher like Linus, Flying Ace like Snoopy, or a lovable loser like Charlie Brown, there is something to touch your heart or make you laugh in Peanuts.

Charles Schulz’s Peanuts is one of the most timeless and beloved comic strips ever.  Peanuts Kids series focuses on topics sure to resonate with middle-grade readers. Kicking off the series is Snoopy: Cowabunga!

First published in 1950, the classic Peanuts strip coined phrases such as “security blanket” and “good grief,” that are now part of the global vernacular, and images of Charles Schulz’s classic characters—Charlie Brown kicking the football, Lucy leaning over Schroeder’s piano—are universally recognized.

Together these books will introduce a new generation of kids to the lovable cast of Peanuts characters.

About this title

About the Author

Charles Schulz is a legend. He was the hand and heart behind 50 years of Peanuts, which featured one of the world's most beloved and recognizable cast of cartoon characters, until his death in 2000.

Reviews

When the Peanuts newspaper strip began its five-decade run, in 1950, good ol’ Charlie Brown was the undisputed focus. But gradually, as his beagle, Snoopy, grew more anthropomorphic and his humanlike thoughts became verbalized in balloons, the insouciant canine became the strip’s most popular character. In this collection, he plays tennis and football, hands out colored eggs as the Easter Beagle, appears as the WWI Flying Ace and BMOC Joe Cool, performs puppet-theater productions for the neighborhood gang, receives countless rejection slips as a frustrated author, and hangs out with his feathered friend Woodstock—all beguilingly depicted in Schulz’s simple, subtle, and sublime drawings. The original black-and-white daily strips benefit from the tasteful addition of color in this volume for kids. If Charlie Brown, with his worries and insecurities, was the character readers were most likely to relate to (and the one who reflected creator Schulz’s own neuroses), Snoopy’s joie de vivre and rich fantasy life make him the perfect aspirational figure for younger readers. Grades 2-7. --Gordon Flagg

Edition details

• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449450792
• ISBN 13: 9781449450793
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224