Best Selling Books by Charles Schulz

Over the past 45 years, Peanuts has become the most widely syndicated comic strip in the world. More than 300 million copies of books featuring the Peanuts gang have been sold. Now, this very special anniversary edition takes readers on a memorable journey through all the peaks and pitfalls endured by the Peanuts gang over the past four-and-a-half decades.

Charlie Brown is the manager of the losingest baseball team in Little League.

Adapted from 50 years of Peanuts comic strips, this Ready-to-Read book is ideal for beginning readers. Lucy stars as a hilarious but untrustworthy football holder for gullible placekicker Charlie Brown. Full-color illustrations.

In Snoopy-family news, Spike is drafted into the Infantry (don''t worry, it''s only Snoopy''s imaginary World War I army), and a brand new brother, "Marbles" (with the spotty ears) takes his bow. We also see two major baseball-oriented stories, one in which Charlie Brown joins Peppermint Patty''s team, and another in which Charlie Brown and his team lose their baseball field.

During his fifty-year career, ninety-nine percent of Charles Schulz''s creative energies went into the dailyPeanuts comic strip. But once in a while he would create a special something else on the side, and this adorable little package collects two of his best "extras" from the 1960s: two Christmas-themed stories written and drawn for national magazines. Created in 1963 (two years before the Charlie Brown Christmas TV special) as a supplement for Good Housekeeping magazine, "Charlie Brown''s Christmas Stocking" comprises 15 original captioned vignettes featuring the entire Peanuts cast of the time ― Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Frieda, Violet, Shermy, and Sally ― each with a joke or reflection about the season. "The Christmas Story" is an original tale created for Woman''s Day in 1968, this one focusing just on Snoopy and the Van Pelt siblings, with Lucy and Linus each explaining the meaning of the holiday to Snoopy. "I''m going to have to be careful," Snoopy reflects at the end of the story, resting on his doghouse next to his bone-decorated tree; "all this theology could ruin my Christmas." The book also includes notes on the provenance of the stories and a pocket-sized biography of Schulz.

A side-splitting collection of everybody''s favorite cartoon kids -- Peanuts!