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Meet the Easter Beagle!
Celebrate Easter with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang in this sweet shaped board book!
Peppermint Patty is upset. She wanted to color Easter eggs with Marcie, but Marcie cracked all the eggs open, cooked them, and ruined them for coloring! Linus tells her not to worry—the Easter Beagle is coming with beautiful colored eggs for everyone. But the Peanuts gang is doubtful—especially Sally. She remembers waiting up in the pumpkin patch with Linus for the Great Pumpkin to arrive. Is the Easter Beagle just another one of Linus’s stories?
© 2017 Peanuts Worldwide LLC
Peppermint Patty is upset. She wanted to color Easter eggs with Marcie, but Marcie cracked all the eggs open, cooked them, and ruined them for coloring! Linus tells her not to worry—the Easter Beagle is coming with beautiful colored eggs for everyone. But the Peanuts gang is doubtful—especially Sally. She remembers waiting up in the pumpkin patch with Linus for the Great Pumpkin to arrive. Is the Easter Beagle just another one of Linus’s stories?
© 2017 Peanuts Worldwide LLC
14 pages, Board Book
Published January 17, 2017
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Charles M. Schulz
3,020 books1,640 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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April 21, 2025
Linus, the classic Peanuts character who taught us all the true meaning of Christmas, tells his buddies about the real meaning of Easter this time around. And that meaning is Easter eggs.
Moral: Trust Linus.
Length: This little board book has gigantic paragraphs. My voice went hoarse reading all of them, despite the short page count.
Favorite Line: “On Easter Sunday the Easter Beagle gives beautifully colored eggs to all the good little kids.”
Overall impression: Another pagan Easter book. But at least this one has your favorite Peanuts characters and dialogue that’s not insulting. A surprise at the end from Snoopy earns it a star.
Moral: Trust Linus.
Length: This little board book has gigantic paragraphs. My voice went hoarse reading all of them, despite the short page count.
Favorite Line: “On Easter Sunday the Easter Beagle gives beautifully colored eggs to all the good little kids.”
Overall impression: Another pagan Easter book. But at least this one has your favorite Peanuts characters and dialogue that’s not insulting. A surprise at the end from Snoopy earns it a star.
January 27, 2024
This is the second Peanut's board book I've read that has too much text for the format (I also read a book about spring). Plot is standard Peanuts shenanigans. I don't recall Lucy ever being delighted to get a big kiss from Snoopy, either.
April 7, 2025
Well, if you know me, I love everything Peanuts-related. And this time is no different.
The only downfall - too short of a book and it needs to be at least four pages longer to get the whole story conveyed to the reader/listener.
The only downfall - too short of a book and it needs to be at least four pages longer to get the whole story conveyed to the reader/listener.
April 24, 2018
A great Peanuts board book for children of all ages about the Easter Beagle bringing colored eggs to all the children.
December 28, 2019
Such a cute book and it follows the Peanuts Easter Beagle special with a few extra surprises thrown in. Easy reading for the young and the young at heart
June 13, 2020
These board books are fun and adorable --- celebrating Easter might not be what the Peanuts gang thought it would be!
April 18, 2022
You just can’t go wrong with Peanuts. :) I love 💕 Snoopy:
April 8, 2023
Snoopy brings Easter eggs to the Peanuts cast.
The characters had a strange cognitive dissonance about Snoopy and the Easter beagle.
The characters had a strange cognitive dissonance about Snoopy and the Easter beagle.
June 17, 2023
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Gift from Harper's grandmother
Cute Peanut's story about the Easter Beagle delivering eggs to the Peanuts gang
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Gift from Harper's grandmother
Cute Peanut's story about the Easter Beagle delivering eggs to the Peanuts gang
January 11, 2023
Adore this sweet quick reads with the happy gang making me smile
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