Charlie Brown & Charlie Schulz1970
In Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Peanuts
by Charles M. Schulz
The warmhearted biography of a wonderful man (real) and a wonderful boy (almost-as-real), who proved that being a loser could be the biggest success story of all. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Peanuts.
How did Charlie Brown, loner, loser, the world's most inept baseball manager and master of a daredevil World War I flying-ace dog, become the most universally beloved hero of our time? It all began when a kid named Charles Monroe Schulz skipped two elementary grades and was suddenly the youngest, smallest boy in his class. Charlie was always the last to be chosen when teams were siding up, and he ate his peanut-butter sandwiches all alone at lunch time. He was seldom invited to birthday parties. Cartoons and captions tell Charlie's whole sad, sincere story from kindergarten...