Charles M Schulz

A Charlie Brown Christmas Charles M Schulz

Brief Description: Surrounded by other kids with extremely commercial ideas about Christmas, Charlie Brown struggles to understand the true spirit of the holiday. Publisher Marketing: Celebrate Christmas with Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang in this gorgeous retelling of the beloved Christmas special! 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of "A Charlie Brown Christmas "TV Special! Christmas is almost here, which means ice-skating, Christmas carols, and sparkly lights everywhere--even on Snoopy's doghouse! Everyone is enjoying the holiday celebrations except Charlie Brown. Can the Peanuts gang help Charlie Brown discover the true meaning of Christmas? Find out in this beautiful storybook with glitter flocking, embossing, and foil on the cover! (c) 2015 Peanuts Worldwide LLC Review Citations:

Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2009 (EAN 9780762433056, Hardcover)

Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2002 pg. 53 (EAN 9780689853579, Hardcover)

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2003 pg. 53 (EAN 9780689853579, Hardcover)

People Weekly 12/23/2013 pg. 57 (EAN 9780062272140, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Schulz, Charles M Charles M. Schulz was born November 25, 1922, in Minneapolis. His destiny was foreshadowed when an uncle gave him, at the age of two days, the nickname Sparky (after the racehorse Spark Plug in the newspaper strip Barney Google). In his senior year in high school, his mother noticed an ad in a local newspaper for a correspondence school, Federal Schools (later called Art Instruction Schools). Schulz passed the talent test, completed the course, and began trying, unsuccessfully, to sell gag cartoons to magazines. (His first published drawing was of his dog, Spike, and appeared in a 1937 Ripley's Believe It or Not! installment.) Between 1948 and 1950, he succeeded in selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post as well as, to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press, a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks. It was run in the women's section and paid $10 a week. After writing and drawing the feature for two years, Schulz asked for a better location in the paper or for daily exposure, as well as a raise. When he was turned down on all three counts, he quit. He started submitting strips to the newspaper syndicates. In the spring of 1950, he received a letter from the United Feature Syndicate, announcing their interest in his submission, Li'l Folks. Schulz boarded a train in June for New York City; more interested in doing a strip than a panel, he also brought along the first installments of what would become Peanuts and that was what sold. (The title, which Schulz loathed to his dying day, was imposed by the syndicate.) The first Peanuts daily appeared October 2, 1950; the first Sunday, January 6, 1952. Diagnosed with cancer, Schulz retired from Peanuts at the end of 1999. He died on February 13, 2000, the day before Valentine's Day and the day before his last strip was published having completed 17,897 daily and Sunday strips, each and every one fully written, drawn, and lettered entirely by his own hand an unmatched achievement in comics. Contributor Bio:  Jeralds, Scott Scott Jeralds is a 30-year animation industry veteran who has worked for companies including Marvel Studios, Hanna-Barbera Studios, M. G. M. Animation, Warner Bros., and Porchlight Entertainment. A graduate of California Institute of the Arts, Scott has worked on TV series such as The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons, Krypto the Superdog, Tom and Jerry, The Pink Panther, Superman, Secret Saturdays, and directed the cartoon series Freakazoid, for which he earned an Emmy Award. In addition, Scott has designed cartoon-related merchandise, licensing art, and artwork for several comic and children's book publications. Contributor Bio:  Gallo, Tina Tina Gallo is an award-winning author who has worked in children's publishing for twenty years. She has written more than sixty children's books and currently resides in Throggs Neck, New York.