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Peanuts 5-Minute Stories
Twelve of your favorite Peanuts gang adventures are now available in one dazzling edition!
It’s the adventures of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang! Where will Snoopy’s imagination take him today? Will Charlie Brown ever kick that football? Will Linus ever let go of his blanket? Find out in this treasury of twelve favorite Peanuts stories, each of which can be read aloud in five minutes. This sweet collection is perfect for busy little Peanuts fans who are always on the go!
Peanuts 5-Minute Stories
Snoopy Takes Off!
Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown!
Lose the Blanket, Linus!
It’s Hockey Time, Franklin!
Cool Like Snoopy
Messy Like Pigpen
Sweet Like Sally
Snoopy for President!
Kick the Football, Charlie Brown!
A Best Friend for Snoopy
A Best Friend for Woodstock
Snoopy and Woodstock’s Great Adventure
© 2017 Peanuts Worldwide LLC
It’s the adventures of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang! Where will Snoopy’s imagination take him today? Will Charlie Brown ever kick that football? Will Linus ever let go of his blanket? Find out in this treasury of twelve favorite Peanuts stories, each of which can be read aloud in five minutes. This sweet collection is perfect for busy little Peanuts fans who are always on the go!
Peanuts 5-Minute Stories
Snoopy Takes Off!
Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown!
Lose the Blanket, Linus!
It’s Hockey Time, Franklin!
Cool Like Snoopy
Messy Like Pigpen
Sweet Like Sally
Snoopy for President!
Kick the Football, Charlie Brown!
A Best Friend for Snoopy
A Best Friend for Woodstock
Snoopy and Woodstock’s Great Adventure
© 2017 Peanuts Worldwide LLC
192 pages, Hardcover
First published December 12, 2017
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Charles M. Schulz
3,023 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 16, 2021
This was cute but not at all what I was expecting. The stories were a lot longer than I thought and a lot of them were 'recycled' from other books and from some of the Peanuts specials. Not a bad thing at all, and the illustrations were cute. It's a quick and easy read.
March 2, 2018
I didn't like this compilation. I love the Peanuts. I don't necessarily consider myself a Peanuts purist, but this was so corny. There were 12 stories. A story would focus on a specific schtick of Peanuts fame, and turn it into a cozy, feel-good story, without the angst. What is Peanuts without the angst?
I really didn't like this at all.
I really didn't like this at all.
May 16, 2019
I liked it when Charlie Brown kept falling down.
March 8, 2025
Ha, these are cute. I'll be honest never really watched Peanuts and only know Snoopy because my dad was obsessed with the doggie. But overall never really viewed much of their stuff. However my daughter is loving these stories. I also enjoyed them.
Especially Snoopy running for school president (Even though he doesn't go) and also him pretending to fly airplane on his dog house. Good laughs. If you have a 4-8 year old I'm sure they'll love these too.
Especially Snoopy running for school president (Even though he doesn't go) and also him pretending to fly airplane on his dog house. Good laughs. If you have a 4-8 year old I'm sure they'll love these too.
February 5, 2024
This book was great. Our favorite story was the one about the kite.
August 31, 2019
This collection is a good introduction to the Peanuts characters for the ages 3-5ish set. Some of these stories have so watered down the wit of the comic strip that they can be tough to read as an adult. It’s like trying to analyze “funny,” which is itself in no way funny. That said, I love Peanuts and am happy to share them with my son. He, by the way, loves this book (almost 4 years old).
March 20, 2018
3.5 stars
January 17, 2021
Took me a little longer than 5 minutes to read each story. But that's ok.
October 11, 2024
I just don’t get the appeal of Peanuts comics, so take this with that in mind and feel free to ignore if Schultz brings you amusement. This format lends nothing better or new to stories of Charlie Brown et al. At least the cartoons had neat music and some clever Christian storytelling. This however, is basically the comic strip, but with punchlines (such as I guess some claim there are in Peanuts), worked into the prose. This does not make them more effective, but rather even more boring and underwhelming.
Good grief!
Good grief!
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