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Peanuts: Little Library

Peanuts: Little Library

by SunbirdSchulz Charles M. and Charles M. Schulz
Board book
Publication Date: 28/01/2015

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Meet Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy and Linus from the awesome Peanuts gang in this gorgeous little box of books. Perfect for little hands, party bags and Snoopy fans!
ISBN:
9780141356457
9780141356457
Category:
Early learning / early learning concepts
Format:
Board book
Publication Date:
28-01-2015
Publisher:
Penguin UK
Edition:
1st Edition
Pages:
48
Dimensions (mm):
97x93x52mm
Weight:
0.34kg
Charles M. Schulz

Charles Monroe Schulz (1922 -2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known for his Peanuts comic strip. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Dena and Carl Schulz. His nickname "Sparky" was given by his uncle, after the horse Spark Plug in the Barney Google comic strip. He attended St. Paul's Richard Gordon Elementary School, where he skipped two half-grades.

As a result, he was the youngest in his class when he attended St. Paul Central High years later, which may have been the reason why he was so shy and isolated as a young teenager. After his mother died in February, 1943, he was drafted into the army and sent to Camp Campbell in Kentucky. He was then shipped to Europe two years later to fight in World War II.

After leaving the United States Army in 1945, he took a job as an art teacher at Art Instruction Inc., which he attended before he was drafted. First published by Robert Ripley in his Ripley's Believe It or Not!, then in a series of chronicles, The Saturday Evening Post, his first regular comic strip, Li'l Folks was published in 1947 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. (It was in this strip that Charlie Brown first appeared, as well as a dog that looked much like Snoopy).

In 1950 he approached the United Features Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. This 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 abandoned that strip due to the demands of the success of Peanuts.

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