Snoopy: Cowabunga!: A Peanuts Collection (Peanuts Kids) - Hardcover

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9781449473839: Snoopy: Cowabunga!: A Peanuts Collection (Peanuts Kids)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1449473830 ISBN 13: 9781449473839
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Charles Schulz's Peanuts is one of the most timeless and beloved comic strips ever. Now AMP! helps carry on that legacy with new collections of Peanuts classics focused around topics sure to resonate with middle-grade readers. Kicking off the series is Snoopy: Cowabunga!

First published in 1950, the classic Peanuts strip now appears in more than 2,200 newspapers in 75 countries in 25 languages. Phrases such as "security blanket" and "good grief," which originated in the Peanuts world, 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 now universally recognized.

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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.

From Booklist

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

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Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1449473830
ISBN 13 
9781449473839
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
226
Rating
  • 4.48 out of 5 stars
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