It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown (Peanuts Friends Series)

by Charles M. Schulz, Vicki Scott (Illustrator), Daphne Pendergrass (Adapted by)

Overview

Celebrate Easter with the Peanuts gang!

Lucy is busy rigging the Easter-egg hunt, Peppermint Patty and Marcie can't seem to make Easter eggs no matter how many times they try, and Linus is waiting for the Easter Beagle to bring candy and eggs for everyone. Join Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang for an Easter they'll never forget!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481461597
Publisher:	Simon Spotlight
Publication date:	01/05/2016
Series:	Peanuts Friends Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

Plagued with problems, the Peanuts gang almost gives up on the celebration; that is until Snoopy aka the "Easter Beagle" brightens the hapless holiday in It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz, adapted by Justine and Ron Fontes, illus. by Paige Braddock. ( Jan.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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