Eight stories about the popular Peanuts characters, each designed to be read in two minutes.

Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang help present scientific facts about plants, geology, weather, climate, astronomy, and space travel.

Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang. In postwar America, there was no newspaper comic strip more recognizable than Charles Schulz's Peanuts. It was everywhere, not just in thousands of daily newspapers. For nearly fifty years, Peanuts was a mainstay of American popular culture in television, movies, and merchandising, from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to the White House to the breakfast table. Most people have come to associate Peanuts with the innocence of childhood, not the social and political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. Some have even argued that Peanuts was so beloved because it was apolitical. The truth, as Blake Scott Ball shows, is that Peanuts was very political. Whether it was the battles over the Vietnam War, racial integration, feminism, or the future of a nuclear world, Peanuts was a daily conversation about very real hopes and fears and the political realities of the Cold War world. As thousands of fan letters, interviews, and behind-the-scenes documents reveal, Charles Schulz used his comic strip to project his ideas to a mass audience and comment on the rapidly changing politics of America. Charlie Brown's America covers all of these debates and much more in a historical journey through the tumultuous decades of the Cold War as seen through the eyes of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang.

Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang help present hundreds of scientific facts about the animal kingdom in a question and answer format.

Preparing for his first day of school, an anxious Charlie Brown searches for the confidence to stop fretting and have a great year. Simultaneous and eBook.

Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang help present a host of facts about various modes of transportation in a question and answer format.

Each volume deals with a different subject, such as astronomy, holidays, machines, clothing, transportation, and other scientific subjects. Uses questions and answer format.

The Peanuts characters guide the beginning collector in starting, storing, and displaying collections and give instructions for making a variety of associated projects.

"About Charles Schulz, creator of the comic strip, Peanuts. Includes photos, comics and a studio tour."--Amazon.com.