A Charlie Brown Valentine

by Charles M. Schulz

Book Overview

Celebrate Valentine's Day with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang in this retelling of a beloved Valentine's Day TV special! Charlie Brown is excited about Valentine's Day. It's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481468030
• ISBN13: 9781481468039
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Simon Spotlight
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 9.8" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

He really had something. Before he lost it.

Unfortunately, Charles M. Schultz hung in a little too long. Although I do respect his decision to not let others take over the strip for him. Thankfully we've been spared a mass-produced daily Peanuts knock-off. But it is easy to think of reading Peanuts in the newspaper and remember only the tremulous, punchless, demented strip we found in our newspapers in the final decade of Schultz's life. Formulaic and running on fumes, his latter era chicken-scratches were found to actually bombard readers with unstable free radicals, knocking weeks off their lives with each Linus-uttered aphorism. But the old books are still around, and kids who discover them will have the same chance as those of us before to identify with the Peanuts characters. It's a good reminder that, before the strip went downhill, before the TV specials became popular as nostalgic kitsch, Peanuts was popular because it was the first cartoon to be aimed at children but populated by complex and rich three-dimensional characters. It was the first cartoon to celebrate the wonders of childhood while acknowledging the horrors. Turns out kids do ponder existential questions. Kids do sabotage their interpersonal relationships with their character pathology. And then they lie awake at night replaying the events. Their pets mean the world to them and their parents fade into irrelevancy.

Brightly colored, and a lot of fun!

This cute little book (29 pages, excluding the title page and so forth) is another excellent example of the work of the incomparable Charles M. Schulz. In this book it's St. Valentine's Day, the time of love, candy and Valentine cards. Peppermint Patty sends a card to Charlie Brown, but it's the Little Red-Haired Girl that his heart goes out to. Now, if Charlie Brown can only get her to notice him... When I was a child, I absolutely loved the Peanuts, and I am so pleased that my own children have now fallen in love with those same funny characters. This book is large and attractive, with brightly colored pictures that are sure to please the young reader (and Peanuts fans of all ages)! My kids really loved a scene when Charlie Brown decides to practice giving the Little Red-Haired Girl a valentine with Snoopy, who surprises him by putting on a red wig! This is a great book, and my family and I highly recommend it to you!