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Peanuts Treasury
Good Grief! It's More Peanuts!
Join the Peanuts gang in glory and defeat in this classic collection from everyone's favorite comic strip. In Peanuts Treasury, watch Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Sally, and Snoopy face the dramas of life, love, and the Great Pumpkin. Learn the answers to such existential questions as:
· Can WWI flying ace Snoopy defeat the Red Baron?
· Will Charlie Brown ever talk to the Little Red-Haired Girl?
· Will Lucy let Charlie Brown kick the football?
· Will Snoopy escape the deadly icicle hanging over his doghouse?
Peanuts Treasury captures the gang's hilarious defining moments, whether at the psychiatrist's stand or under the kite-eating tree. It's the perfect book for anyone who wants Peanuts® to live forever.
Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000), creator of the beloved Peanuts cartoon strip, touched the hearts and funny bones of generations of readers around the world. Appearing in twenty-one languages and 2,600 newspapers, Peanuts® is the world's most widely read comic strip, reaching more than 355 million readers daily.
Join the Peanuts gang in glory and defeat in this classic collection from everyone's favorite comic strip. In Peanuts Treasury, watch Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Sally, and Snoopy face the dramas of life, love, and the Great Pumpkin. Learn the answers to such existential questions as:
· Can WWI flying ace Snoopy defeat the Red Baron?
· Will Charlie Brown ever talk to the Little Red-Haired Girl?
· Will Lucy let Charlie Brown kick the football?
· Will Snoopy escape the deadly icicle hanging over his doghouse?
Peanuts Treasury captures the gang's hilarious defining moments, whether at the psychiatrist's stand or under the kite-eating tree. It's the perfect book for anyone who wants Peanuts® to live forever.
Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000), creator of the beloved Peanuts cartoon strip, touched the hearts and funny bones of generations of readers around the world. Appearing in twenty-one languages and 2,600 newspapers, Peanuts® is the world's most widely read comic strip, reaching more than 355 million readers daily.
256 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 1968
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Charles M. Schulz
3,037 books1,634 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 19, 2020
Some works of fiction, after enchanting countless readers, become classics, a touchstone of culture for generations. I would submit "Peanuts" as one of these classics.
The existential struggles of the boy named Charlie Brown, the adventures (real and imagined) of his beagle, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang, seem timeless.
Charlie Brown wants to fly his kite, but it is always getting "eaten" by the "kite-eating tree." He pitches for a baseball team that never wins. He tries to kick a football, but it is always removed at the last moment.
And yet, Charlie Brown soldiers on.
I first read Peanuts in dusty paperback books kept in the spare bedroom at my grandparents' house. Through lazy Sunday afternoons or the occasional sleepover, I learned the names of all the Peanut characters and their defining traits.
My favorite was Schroeder, the virtuoso on his tiny piano. I even had a watch with piano keys on the plastic band and Schroeder on the watch face, pounding out his music as the second hands ticked by. I loved that watch so much - I wore through the plastic wristband, replaced it, and wore through it a second time.
When I read Peanuts Treasury, it transported me back to a time when my biggest concern was finishing my homework before the end of the weekend and to a sense of comfort that family members who loved me were just in the next room. It was a nice escape from the current reality, where my biggest concerns seem so impossibly out-of-my-hands and loved ones are all in their separate spaces.
Recommended for readers who are looking to spend a few hours away from this world and in the life of a boy who never succeeds and never ever gives up.
The existential struggles of the boy named Charlie Brown, the adventures (real and imagined) of his beagle, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang, seem timeless.
Charlie Brown wants to fly his kite, but it is always getting "eaten" by the "kite-eating tree." He pitches for a baseball team that never wins. He tries to kick a football, but it is always removed at the last moment.
And yet, Charlie Brown soldiers on.
I first read Peanuts in dusty paperback books kept in the spare bedroom at my grandparents' house. Through lazy Sunday afternoons or the occasional sleepover, I learned the names of all the Peanut characters and their defining traits.
My favorite was Schroeder, the virtuoso on his tiny piano. I even had a watch with piano keys on the plastic band and Schroeder on the watch face, pounding out his music as the second hands ticked by. I loved that watch so much - I wore through the plastic wristband, replaced it, and wore through it a second time.
When I read Peanuts Treasury, it transported me back to a time when my biggest concern was finishing my homework before the end of the weekend and to a sense of comfort that family members who loved me were just in the next room. It was a nice escape from the current reality, where my biggest concerns seem so impossibly out-of-my-hands and loved ones are all in their separate spaces.
Recommended for readers who are looking to spend a few hours away from this world and in the life of a boy who never succeeds and never ever gives up.
September 26, 2013
Charlie Brown and Snoopy, both the existentialists of my childhood and Snoopy my hero too.....
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December 5, 2020
My dad had a copy of this he bought about the time I was born. Lots of nostalgia here, I admit it. But I also just like it.
January 29, 2012
I grew up with this - read it a hundred times at least - and there are few books that are more important than those kind. This is Schulz at his brilliant 1960's best, probably one of the main reasons I ended up being a cartoonist.
March 31, 2020
My comfort read in difficult times.
November 1, 2021
I loved this book! It's much larger in size than other Peanuts books but it's filled with hilarious strips! The pages aren't numbered but I honestly didn't even notice. A lot of these I'd seen many times before but any Peanuts strip is worth reading again and again! Peanuts never fails to make me laugh out loud and, on some occasions, cry. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Charles Schulz was a genius!
April 24, 2019
Its a great book for laughs I recommend it.
December 6, 2012
Charles M. Schulz was a genius who spoke volumes with his pumpkin headed brain children and the little beagle who seemed to be the glue that held it all together. I am a huge fan of the Peanuts, a timeless universe of humor and wisdom. This large hardcover has some of the best of Schulz' earlier work. It's a delight.
August 30, 2019
Who doesn't love Peanuts?
2019 A book of comics
2019 A book of comics
January 16, 2020
This book is America (at least white America) in the 1960s. Yes, the comics focus on a familiar cast of children and their attendant troubles, but the appeal as an adult reader is the subtext about things like: prayer in public spaces, the big business of sports, cruelty, psychiatric analysis, belief in the supernatural, and a hundred other one-offs. And, yes, many comics are just silly goodness. But it's the variety and subtlety that counts.
(Re)reading this one also highlighted just how influential Peanuts was to Bill Watterson, even down to Snoopy's facial expressions and the occasional Sunday strip "drawn" by Linus.
(Re)reading this one also highlighted just how influential Peanuts was to Bill Watterson, even down to Snoopy's facial expressions and the occasional Sunday strip "drawn" by Linus.
March 31, 2009
This is AWSOME book.It stars the well known Characters Linus,Charlie Brown, Violet,Lucy,Schroder,Franklin,Marcie, Snoopy, and Peppermint patty. Like in every book in thids sereis, Charlie Brown is always being harrased and hated. He still is in love with the "Little Red Haired Girl" He attempts to introduce himself to her but always in Vain. In the beginning, Charlie Brown gets a little sister who some what is about 6 years old by the time the book ends but the other character's ages have not changed.At the very end, Linus and Lucy get a baby brother named Rerun who turns out to be a great baseball player and is so short that the others can't pitch to him. In on strip, The opposing team tries to pitch to him but all in vain.THey start to win but th game gets rained out.
August 29, 2014
I love the philosophical and moral debates between the Peanuts gang. Schulz was an amazing comic writer. Peanuts was the first comic I went to when I looked at the comics section in the newspaper as a kid. Linus, Lucy, Charlie, Snoopy, and everyone are still poignant today as they were when they were first created.
March 2, 2008
I can't even count the number of times I've read this book. Treasure indeed!
July 28, 2008
I grew up loving that imaginative/sarcastic beagle and his little yellow friend, the round-headed kid, the little philosopher with the blanket, the kid with the piano, and even the fussbudget.
August 13, 2011
So cute! I LOVE SnoopY!!!
January 25, 2012
Wonderful compilation of the Peanuts.
November 27, 2012
A really cute collection of old peanuts comics. I read some out loud to my kids and they cracked up. Classic collection for any Peanuts fan.
December 30, 2025
An all-time classic.
November 14, 2013
EEP! if you love Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang you will LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!
June 9, 2016
How could any collection of Peanuts merit less than 5 stars?
August 15, 2023
gonna start calling people “blockhead”
March 3, 2025
Once in a while I like to take a break from heavier stuff and just enjoy a collection of cartoons. I was a huge fan of Peanuts in the mid to late 1960s. Everyone was. Peanuts was a phenomenon in its day. It went sour when Charles Schulz agreed to let it be on TV. I liked Vince Giraldi's music, but giving motion and voices to the voices, usually in conjunction to some washed-out Hallmark quasi holiday celebration took the subtlety out of it.
It's been many years since I've seen more than a couple of frames from Peanuts. A whole sizeable anthology was a real treat. My favorite character is Linus, the smartest kid, also the nicest, who carries a blanket, sucks his thumb, and wears glasses while quoting obscure scripture, reading Dostoyevsky, and displaying insight beyond the maturity of adults. I'd like to see a bit of myself in that kid.
It's been many years since I've seen more than a couple of frames from Peanuts. A whole sizeable anthology was a real treat. My favorite character is Linus, the smartest kid, also the nicest, who carries a blanket, sucks his thumb, and wears glasses while quoting obscure scripture, reading Dostoyevsky, and displaying insight beyond the maturity of adults. I'd like to see a bit of myself in that kid.
July 5, 2024
There's no denying Charles Schulz's influence on the world of comic strips. His characters have been loved the world over for generations, and his humor still rings true today. These daily funnies may have been from decades ago, but the stories they tell are timeless.
However, one problem kept me from giving this a perfect score: In some of the strips, the handwriting was very messy; not at all like Schulz's usual neat print. People with reading disabilities such as dyslexia, or vision problems, may find those parts illegible.
However, one problem kept me from giving this a perfect score: In some of the strips, the handwriting was very messy; not at all like Schulz's usual neat print. People with reading disabilities such as dyslexia, or vision problems, may find those parts illegible.
November 4, 2017
The Peanuts are a timeless classic created by comic great, Charles "Sparky" Schulz. This book is a collaboration of his greatest Peanuts strips. I love his work and style so much and I recommend this book highly on my list and I think it will and shall be enjoyed by all.
October 13, 2020
A Collection of Schulz Peanuts characters. A great book to start your collection!
December 7, 2020
Classic Peanuts
November 2, 2021
Lucy is a horrible person, Linus is obnoxiously religious, but I found a new appreciation for Charlie Brown.
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February 5, 2022
Linus has my whole heart
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January 1, 2023Read many years ago great collection
April 17, 2024
I once made the mistake of taking this book on a trip to see my relatives in another state and leaving it there. It was a library book. Never made that mistake again!
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