The Complete Peanuts: 1957-1958 (Complete Peanuts #4)

by Charles M Schulz (Author)

Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade
As the 1950s close down, Peanuts definitively enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to speak in the previous volume, becomes downright eloquent and even begins to fend off Lucy's bullying; even so, his security neurosis becomes more pronounced, including a harrowing two-week "Lost Weekend" sequence of blanketlessness. Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom, with spectacularly lost kites, humiliating baseball losses (including one where he becomes "the Goat" and is driven from the field in a chorus of BAAAAHs); at least his newly acquired "pencil pal" affords him some comfort. Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, and Patty are also around, as is an increasingly Beethoven-fixated Schroeder. But the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. He's at the center of the most graphically dynamic and action-packed episodes (the ones in which he attempts to grab Linus's blanket at a dead run). He even tentatively tries to sleep on the crest of his doghouse roof once or twice, with mixed results. And his imitations continue apace, including penguins, anteaters, sea monsters, vultures and (much to her chagrin) Lucy. No wonder the beagle is the cover star of this volume.
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As essential as pop texts get.
Charles M Schulz
Charles M. Schulz is a legend. He was the hand and heart behind fifty years of Peanuts, which featured one of the world's most beloved and recognizable casts of cartoon characters, until his death in 2000.

Natalie Shaw has written dozens of books for kids of all ages and has loved reading ever since she got her first library card. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.

With over thirty years in animation, comic books, magazine illustration, and children's books, Robert Pope's family has seen a great deal of the back of his head. Robert currently illustrates the Peanuts gang for both BOOM comics and Simon Spotlight's Ready-to-Read series. He also pencils Looney Tunes for DC comics! Robert has drawn for Scooby-Doo, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Johnny Bravo, The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and many others for both comics and animation.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781560976707
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Publication date
November 01, 2005
Series
Complete Peanuts
BISAC categories
LIT017000 - Literary Criticism | Comics & Graphic Novels
DES007040 - Design | Graphic Arts | Illustration
ART016000 - Art | Individual Artists | General
Library of Congress categories
United States
Comic books, strips, etc
Snoopy (Fictitious character)
Brown, Charlie (Fictitious character)
Schulz, Charles M
Van Pelt, Lucy (Fictitious character)

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