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Snoopy's Thanksgiving
Sometimes getting together with friends and family for Thanksgiving isn't all that it's cracked up to be, as Snoopy learns when his brother Spike invites him to spend Thanksgiving in the desert, and things don't quite work out as planned. At least it's a change of pace for Snoopy, who spends most Thanksgivings with the ol' supper dish (and one lonely one at the malt shoppe as Joe Cool). It's also a tense time of year to be a bird who's afraid of being mistaken for a turkey and roasted, and Woodstock copes with his anxieties in various ways, including by donning a disguise with Snoopy's help. Meanwhile, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, and Franklin all get sick over their Thanksgiving vacation. Snoopy's Thanksgiving is the perfect gift book for anyone whose idea of the holiday is more Charlie Brown than Norman Rockwell.
65 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 7, 2014
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Charles M. Schulz
3,022 books1,636 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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November 20, 2024
"It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a turkey rang out.”
Snoopy gets an invitation to Thanksgiving from his brother Spike, who lives in Needles (in the desert), so it doesn't work out. But the real star of this short book is Woodstock:
Snoopy to Woodstock (a bird): "So you know how they give thanks, don’t you? They eat a bird! They eat a bird!”
Woodstock jumps down and kicks Linus.
Linus: "What was that all about?"
"Thanksgiving is a good day if you don’t get eaten.”
Almost all of the gang gets sick over the holiday weekend, so perfect Peanuts misery. Cheers!
Snoopy gets an invitation to Thanksgiving from his brother Spike, who lives in Needles (in the desert), so it doesn't work out. But the real star of this short book is Woodstock:
Snoopy to Woodstock (a bird): "So you know how they give thanks, don’t you? They eat a bird! They eat a bird!”
Woodstock jumps down and kicks Linus.
Linus: "What was that all about?"
"Thanksgiving is a good day if you don’t get eaten.”
Almost all of the gang gets sick over the holiday weekend, so perfect Peanuts misery. Cheers!
November 23, 2023
3.75
To be honest I usefully don’t enjoy Charlie Brown, but this one was actually cute. Perfect for thanksgiving!
To be honest I usefully don’t enjoy Charlie Brown, but this one was actually cute. Perfect for thanksgiving!
November 15, 2025
Short, But Good
I think this is the shortest holiday book I've read for the Peanuts gang. It is still way fun! Woodstock is definitely the star here.
I think this is the shortest holiday book I've read for the Peanuts gang. It is still way fun! Woodstock is definitely the star here.
November 27, 2024
Fantagraphics celebrates Thanksgiving Peanuts style in this hilarious 2014 collection of strips from Charles Schulz.
First, Snoopy ventures out West to visit his brother Spike who lives in the desert with a bunch of bunny-eating coyotes. Then Charlie Brown tries his luck selling Thanksgiving wreaths before Woodstock has a panic attack that he's going to be the main course at this year's Thanksgiving dinner.
Silly birdie. Doesn't Woodstock know that his friends eat jelly beans, milkshakes and toast for Turkey Day?
There's a few one page shorts as well as a couple of strips blown up and spread out in separate panels over several pages to give readers just over 60 pages of Thanksgiving fun. I'm surprised that this was published by Fantagraphics. Not that they couldn't produce this or anything about the quality. It's just that the format looked more like a series of books about Snoopy and friends that the greeting card magnate Hallmark used to produce in the 90s and early 00s. I'm now wondering if Fantagraphics was tapped to produce those books for Hallmark much like how Dynamite Entertainment and Dark Horse are publishing Marvel's outsourced material...
If you're stressing about having the relatives over for the holiday, then take a much needed break and enjoy the exploits of a boy named Charlie Brown and his dog.
First, Snoopy ventures out West to visit his brother Spike who lives in the desert with a bunch of bunny-eating coyotes. Then Charlie Brown tries his luck selling Thanksgiving wreaths before Woodstock has a panic attack that he's going to be the main course at this year's Thanksgiving dinner.
Silly birdie. Doesn't Woodstock know that his friends eat jelly beans, milkshakes and toast for Turkey Day?
There's a few one page shorts as well as a couple of strips blown up and spread out in separate panels over several pages to give readers just over 60 pages of Thanksgiving fun. I'm surprised that this was published by Fantagraphics. Not that they couldn't produce this or anything about the quality. It's just that the format looked more like a series of books about Snoopy and friends that the greeting card magnate Hallmark used to produce in the 90s and early 00s. I'm now wondering if Fantagraphics was tapped to produce those books for Hallmark much like how Dynamite Entertainment and Dark Horse are publishing Marvel's outsourced material...
If you're stressing about having the relatives over for the holiday, then take a much needed break and enjoy the exploits of a boy named Charlie Brown and his dog.
November 20, 2020
Cute bind up of Thanksgiving comics I assume have been taken from the comic strips. Wasn't a big fan of every selection but the book is great quality -- will definitely buy more collections from this company in future.
December 28, 2017
An enjoyable book of the Thanksgivings Snoopy has had.Not just him,but a bit of everyone else too-esp. Woodstock(who learns its not good to be a bird on Thanksgiving and hides).
November 4, 2018
Brought a smile!
November 24, 2022
A fun Thanksgiving read. I really loved all the comics about Woodstock. (He's my favorite!)
And Snoopy's right, Thanksgiving is a bad time to be a bird! LOL!
And Snoopy's right, Thanksgiving is a bad time to be a bird! LOL!
December 24, 2022
Always good to read Snoopy and the gang!
November 10, 2023
It was sitting on a table at Hawthorn. So of course, I took my break and reread it. Still as delightful at 50 as it was at 7. Makes you rethink what you should and should not be thankful for.
December 16, 2023
So cute
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November 26, 2015
In keeping with the holiday, I read this very quick little collection of Thanksgiving themed Peanuts comics. There's a heavy emphasis on Snoopy, including his trek to Needles for Thanksgiving with his brother. The book is 64 pages, and several are single panel, so this should take maybe 10 minutes to read. It's vintage Peanuts; cute and light, but nothing that'll make you laugh out loud (though it does earn a couple giggles). Short and sweet.
June 1, 2018
Sempre agradável ler histórias do meu beagle preferido, e essa temática de thanksgiving, apesar de não existir no Brasil, sempre esteve presente na minha vida por causa desses desenhos animados. Então foi ótimo. E ver o Spike é sempre bom também.
December 14, 2014
How can you not love this little book filled with holiday-themed Peanuts?
November 16, 2015
Cool little book, with a few storylines in it.
February 23, 2016
Such a cute little story Woodstock and snoopy had me proper laughing.
March 30, 2017
Snoopy and Woodstock are love!
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