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Snoopy: What's Wrong with Dog Lips?
Linus's sincere pumpkin patch, Snoopy's fantasy world, and kite-eating trees! They're all back in this new collection of classic Peanuts strips, compiled especially for middle-grade readers.
176 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 10, 2017
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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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August 27, 2024
The Peanuts are Here!
Lots of good fun with Snoopy and the gang. Lots of smiles and laughter and lots of attitude from all the characters.
Charlie Brown is on his baseball fanatical career for the summer. His team never wins. At least his team has cool looking baseball caps.
Snoopy meets his long lost brother, Spike. Maybe he’ll have some help with the cat next door.
Snoopy says he wants to travel to Wimbledon to play tennis. But all he does is hop on a train to travel to the Midwest.
A lot of more stuff happens. And then the book is finished.
Four stars. 💫💫💫💫
Lots of good fun with Snoopy and the gang. Lots of smiles and laughter and lots of attitude from all the characters.
Charlie Brown is on his baseball fanatical career for the summer. His team never wins. At least his team has cool looking baseball caps.
Snoopy meets his long lost brother, Spike. Maybe he’ll have some help with the cat next door.
Snoopy says he wants to travel to Wimbledon to play tennis. But all he does is hop on a train to travel to the Midwest.
A lot of more stuff happens. And then the book is finished.
Four stars. 💫💫💫💫
December 13, 2022
part of my ongoing snoopy phase
i love snoopy, but i don't love baseball. and around the time i read this book (or too close to comfort for it) i was forced to watch more baseball than any law-abiding citizen should ever have to consumer.
anyway this book had too much baseball in it.
bottom line: snoopy yes. baseball no.
i love snoopy, but i don't love baseball. and around the time i read this book (or too close to comfort for it) i was forced to watch more baseball than any law-abiding citizen should ever have to consumer.
anyway this book had too much baseball in it.
bottom line: snoopy yes. baseball no.
January 20, 2018
Extremely funny! I loved the part where spike snoopy brother comes and he really skinny! The author did it again!
May 28, 2018
Nothing better than Snoopy scripts to brighten up any day. Always forget how uplifting Schulz' insights through children and animals are. By the way, there's nothing wrong with dog lips!
August 15, 2018
I will always love Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the gang. I felt like I related to Charlie when I was younger and sometimes still do. Charles Schulz will always be one of my favorite people.
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August 24, 2022In snoopy this girl likes this boy and tries to get his attention but the boy is not interested in her and is more interested into his piano.Snoopy goes on a trip where he would go play tennis but he doesn't get there and just get lost.And one of snoopy sibling visit him and how charlie brown sister tries to help snoopy sibling to gain more weight
May 15, 2025
Reflections and lessons learned/the content of this book made me feel…
.. that the lines between childhood and adulthood will always be blurred for the more important things - same for humans and a bit of anthropomorphism!
.. that the lines between childhood and adulthood will always be blurred for the more important things - same for humans and a bit of anthropomorphism!
November 1, 2025
One is never to old for Charlie Brown and Snoopy
What fun to read a comic again. I was looking for Archie but one can never go wrong reading Charlie Brown and his dog Snoopy. Thank you Kindle for offering the challenge.
What fun to read a comic again. I was looking for Archie but one can never go wrong reading Charlie Brown and his dog Snoopy. Thank you Kindle for offering the challenge.
October 1, 2018
Love Snoopy
March 8, 2019
It’s good!!!
January 11, 2024
very funny
I loved it! It made me laugh like only snoopy and the rest of the characters can. I’m 72 and would recommend to anybody over the age of 5 if they car read 😁🥰
I loved it! It made me laugh like only snoopy and the rest of the characters can. I’m 72 and would recommend to anybody over the age of 5 if they car read 😁🥰
July 11, 2024
Absolutely loved this book.
September 1, 2024
I love Charlie Brown and the gang and I have since I was a kid. This collection does not dissapoint, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
September 26, 2024
I'm in my Snoopy era.
October 16, 2024
Lotsa baseball and tennis in this volume.
October 14, 2025
Liked it
I have always enjoyed snoopy and Charlie Brown , and this was really good. It was fun reading about them again.
I have always enjoyed snoopy and Charlie Brown , and this was really good. It was fun reading about them again.
October 25, 2025
An amusing bit of fun. I extra enjoy when there are on-going plot arcs (LOL, such as they are).
October 21, 2025
Eh. I loved reading Charles Shulz in the papers when I was younger, but reading bits in this graphic novel format doesn't do it for me, apparently. Reading this to fulfill the current Amazon Kindle reading challenge. (I would have chosen a Calvin and Hobbes instead, but I already own all the physical books that Watterson has put out, and I'm not buying an e-book copy just to achieve this bookmark...which I did not get, by the way. Amazon needs to get its crap together on these curated challenges.)
October 21, 2025
Snoopy Rocks
Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the whole gang are here to brighten your day and make you smile for a while. Of😊😊😊
Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the whole gang are here to brighten your day and make you smile for a while. Of😊😊😊
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