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Charlie Brown: Here We Go Again
Will they never learn? “Schulz’s masterpiece remains a very particular sort of all-ages comic . . . relevant and funny for all ages generation after generation.” —Good Comics for Kids, a School Library Journal Blog Sibling rivalries. Overzealous hall monitors. Un-kicked footballs. It’s the Peanuts gang you know and love, and everyone’s at it again. Lucy is offering her trademark 5¢ psychiatric advice—and her customers are wondering if it’s actually worth the nickel. Snoopy’s dinner bowl has been thrown deep into enemy territory—and he will do anything to avoid retrieving it from the neighbor’s cat. Finally, our hero must work alongside the little red-haired girl, his secret crush, for a school project . . . can you guess how that will turn out? You’ll find old tricks and new antics in this collection of the world-renowned comics.
176 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 11, 2016
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Charles M. Schulz
3,023 books1,635 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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January 4, 2023
Peanutty Fun!
Check out Lucy, Linus, Charlie Brown and Snoopy, as well as the others. The gang has great fun being together for baseball games and Lucy and Charlie Brown are playing football.
Their hilarious antics are going to have you side-splitting in laughter. The Peanuts are waiting for you inside this book.
Hurry up and open up the book.
Five fantastic stars. ✨✨✨✨✨
Check out Lucy, Linus, Charlie Brown and Snoopy, as well as the others. The gang has great fun being together for baseball games and Lucy and Charlie Brown are playing football.
Their hilarious antics are going to have you side-splitting in laughter. The Peanuts are waiting for you inside this book.
Hurry up and open up the book.
Five fantastic stars. ✨✨✨✨✨
February 6, 2023
Lots of Charlie Brown and kite eating trees and Lucy pulling the football away before Charlie kicks it. Good stuff. Both the dailies and the Sunday strips are in color
December 31, 2023
Fantastic collection of comic strip that covered all of my favorite Peanuts topics.
September 27, 2017
Too much Lucy for my liking. Never been a fan of her character and it felt like half the book was about how "crabby" she is.
December 30, 2025
The focal point of this Charlie Brown book is Charlie Brown’s relationship with the other characters, particularly Lucy, who repeatedly offers to hold the football so that Charlie Brown can kick it. And of course, she moves it every time. Snoopy, who has always been my favorite, also plays a major role. The book is humorous and cute, appropriate for all ages, and the art work is great. Just a fun read!
May 13, 2017
Who doesn't like Peanuts?! Neo has seen Charlie Brown before and thought him funny. Whole comics are not yet his thing, based on his wanting to turn pages swiftly. Neo wants to be able to understand all the thought and speech bubbles, but the plot is not as captivating, yet. I hope to have a real fan of Peanuts here, which will teach him never to trust anyone holding a football, if nothing else!
August 16, 2022
Reflections and lessons learned:
“I think I’ll raise my hand and volunteer… it’ll be good for me… I think I’ll raise my hand and volunteer…
My hand won’t go up.. it’s smarter than I am!”
2x good grief mentions and nods to so many of the familiar storylines so far - what do you think of the story so far? Awesome!
…because I never change
My mind when it's made up,
and it's made up
Charlie Brown…
“I think I’ll raise my hand and volunteer… it’ll be good for me… I think I’ll raise my hand and volunteer…
My hand won’t go up.. it’s smarter than I am!”
2x good grief mentions and nods to so many of the familiar storylines so far - what do you think of the story so far? Awesome!
…because I never change
My mind when it's made up,
and it's made up
Charlie Brown…
October 23, 2022
Woodstock before the name.
Good color artwork. Interesting to see the early development. Woodstock makes an appearance without having the name yet. Linus shows some early blanket skills.
Good color artwork. Interesting to see the early development. Woodstock makes an appearance without having the name yet. Linus shows some early blanket skills.
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April 6, 2020Charlie Brown's collection of mishaps.
May 4, 2020
It was fun to read.
July 30, 2020
I just really love these books because they always put a smile to my face.
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February 13, 2022i want to read the whole book
February 8, 2023
All the classic bits are in this volume: Lucy pulling away the football, Snoopy and the birds, the Little Red-Haired Girl, Linus and his blanket... nostalgia and fun on every page.
November 18, 2023
This is the book where Woodstock is introduced and it's more adorable than you can even imagine.
January 6, 2025
Some real classics in here, very much enjoyed reading the peanuts in this format
April 29, 2025
Enjoyed revisiting Charlie Brown and gang.
October 13, 2025
Peanut Gang are the best
Always loved the peanuts gang. I grew up watching the holiday cartoon and read it on the newspaper. I’m glad it’s on Amazon.
Always loved the peanuts gang. I grew up watching the holiday cartoon and read it on the newspaper. I’m glad it’s on Amazon.
November 4, 2025
This is one of the best ones, you know? It is funny, and helps a lot in between books. I love it!
December 28, 2025
wanted to get my virtual kindle bookmark
cute. read it to get my virtual kindle bookmark to complete the challenge. Snoopy comics are always enjoyed. Would recommend.
cute. read it to get my virtual kindle bookmark to complete the challenge. Snoopy comics are always enjoyed. Would recommend.
December 19, 2016
Somedays you need Sunday Funnies all day Thanks Charlie Brown
December 12, 2019
This book is composed of brief episodes. There is a nice friendly banter between the characters. (Comic Strip Collection)
January 20, 2017
Good grouping of comics. Never heard them talk about adults, but in this we find out their teacher's name and that Charlie's father is a barber.
October 17, 2020
IT WAS FUNNY AND really weird...
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 5, 2026
Really good 👍👍👍I loved it ❤️👏❤️👏❤️👏
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