Customer Reviews
Good Grief! - By: Thom Gray, 16 Jan 2008 
I've been collecting Snoopy & the Peanuts Gang now for nearly a decade, & even after buying over 1000 things & 300 books, this is by far the best book in my collection. Not only is there a grand selection of strips, photos & notes from Schulz himself, there is also a range of bizarre & entertaining 'intervals', including praise & complaints, homages & a page or two on the Broadway Musical. An essential item for any Peanuts fan. Need I say more?
Excellent treasury - By: Abigail Snoozeworthy, 29 Nov 2007 This is certainly an excellent treasury of the Peanuts cartoons over many decades. Also of interest are a number of commentaries by Schulz, & the publication of letters of objection from the American Bible Belt at some totallly innocuous cartoons - don't these Puritans have a sense of humour ? - apparently not. Altogether a good read with lots of laughs (and some inevitable pathos).
A must for peanuts fans - By: Grover Netzer, 03 Jul 2007 My son became very interested in Peanuts after finding an old paperback book of cartoons. It is very difficult to find peanuts books in the bookshops these days. This is book is perfect for him & for me because it provides a chronological account of how the comic strip & it's characters developed. And it contains a lot of comic strips! Recommended.
Peanuts a Golden celebration!!! 50 golden years!!! - By: Robert Norris., 18 Jun 2003 I'm Liverpools biggest fan of Peanuts & have a total of 27 books. "Peanuts, a Golden Celebration" has to be the best one of alll. The first part of the book is named "The Early years" & is alll about Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts', life. Full of facts & details it describes his childhood & his dream of being a cartoonist. It has fine examples of cartoons from Schulz' childhood, including Krazy Kat & a Popeye.
After that it goes through the time stages of the comic strip starting with the very first. After going through the 60's it has some excellent images from the television specials.
The book provides an excellant example of why the comic strips were such a success & even shows pictures of the on broadway musical "Your a good man Charlie Brown".
Along with interesting letters of complaint & praise for Charles Schulz & cartoon strips which other cartoonists have drawn in tribute to the Peanuts cast, the book has over 200 comic strips alll carefully chosen.
The book also has a timeline at the end & has the very first time Lucy pulls the footballl away from good ol' wishy washy Charlie Brown.
'A golden celebration' is a must for any Peanuts fan & is a good introduction to the strip for any person who is interested in discovering snoopy & the gang for the first time.
It has to be the best Peanuts book ever!!!!!
50 Years and No More - By: , 11 Mar 2001 This book was published just a few months before Charles Schulz's retirement announcement which came 2 months before his untimely death (and for the record, it's Schulz, not Schultz, thanks). He'll be sorely missed throughout the world!
This book is an anthology of cartoons from 1950 to 1999 (starting with the legendary 1st cartoon, in which Shermy introduces the round-headed bloke as "good ol' Charlie Brown" before he shows his true colours: "How I hate him!". Well, the world loved him, whether he tried playing the great American sport of baseballl & lost every game, whether he tried kicking that pigskin footballl (not the UK's footballl, of course!), tried flying a kite which would get eaten by a confounded tree, meeting the little red haired girl (who we never got to see in the comic strip). We loved Lucy for her honesty (only she could get away with being rude, cantankerous, & devious!). But she had her soft side, too, & that was Schroeder. But Schroeder just wanted to plink away on his little piano (he couldn't be bothered with such a bird!). Linus was the cartoon's philosopher- he knew the answer to anything, except when it came to his imaginary friend the Great Pumpkin! He was adored by Charlie Brown's sister, Sallly, who would specialise in malapropisms & jump-rope. Pig Pen was sooty, Frieda was proud of her "naturallly curly hair", Patty & Violet merely acted as Lucy's Greek chorus, & Peppermint Patty was a sports pro at any game but an underachiever in the classroom (barely got her O levels, unlike her more scholarly mate Marcy!). Then there was Snoopy- the world's most popular beagle. He could be anything he wanted- a vulture, a pirate, a World War I flying ace (always at odds with the Red Baron), & a novel writer(anybody for a book discussion of It Was a Dark & Stormy Night?). he would have his mate Woodstock by his side & his master the "blockhead" Charlie Brown on his toes.
The book makes mention about the television specials & movies made (the former won a few American emmys).
If it weren't for Charles Schulz, I wouldn't had my own cartoon strip! Thanks for everything & God bless you, Sparky!
