Back in print for the first time in many years, this classic tells the story of how the Peanuts( gang faces the illness of Jenny, a good friend who's stricken with leukemia, with the sensitivity, caring, and warmth that is the trademark of Schulz's work. Illustrations.

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.

The perfect companion for all your Summer camping fun, Snoopy: Beagle Scout Adventures is an adventurous reading experience starring Snoopy, Woodstock, and the rest of the Peanuts gang. Join the Beagle Scouts as they camp out, explore the wild, and have all kinds of laughs along the way. Includes a special More-to-Explore section featuring camping-related activities. Outdoor adventure abounds in this collection of Peanuts strips featuring Snoopy, Woodstock, Charlie Brown, and friends. Join the Beagle Scouts as they experience close encounters with wildlife, grueling journeys along rocky coasts, and refreshing mugs of root beer at small-town rest stops. Snoopy: Beagle Scout Adventures includes a special More-to-Explore section featuring camping-related activities such as a scavenger hunt, camping safety tips, and other resources for making the most of your next real-life camping adventure.

Snoopy has the special ability to hear chocolate chip cookies calling him at all hours of the day and night. With ears like that, how can Charlie Brown ever keep the cookie jar full?

Meet the Peanuts Gang! When Charlie Brown goes on a trip with his family, he leaves Snoopy with Linus and Lucy, and tells him, "We'll be back in a few days." But it seems like it's been a hundred years. Will the round-headed kid ever come back and take Snoopy home!When Charlie Brown goes on a trip with his family, he leaves Snoopy with Lucy and Linus, saying ‘We’ll be back in a few days.’ But it seems like it’s been a hundred years. Will the round-headed kid ever come back and take Snoopy home?

Drawn from the archives of the Charles M. Schulz Museum, an in-depth look at Peanuts with a “wealth of original art” (The New York Times). Charles M. Schulz believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what’s necessary. For fifty years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the world. In all, 17,897 strips were published, making it “arguably the longest story ever told by one human being,” according to Robert Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University. For Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, renowned designer Chip Kidd was granted unprecedented access to the extraordinary archives of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California. Reproducing the best of the Peanuts newspaper strip, all shot from the original art by award-winning photographer Geoff Spear, Only What’s Necessary also features exclusive, rare, and unpublished original art and developmental work—much of which has never been seen before. “Glorious...equal parts museum and monument, a masterwork of curatorial rigor and an affectionate homage.”—Brain Pickings

Jet McAlister has a secret. Eddie Chavez has the hots for Jet (not to mention Eddie’s just plain hot). Jet’s got too many problems to cotton on that Eddie’s interested. Eddie’s trying to be patient, but he loses that when Jet ends her night shift at a strip club with a knife at her throat. Since Eddie’s a cop, he figures he can help. Since Jet’s used to solving everyone’s problems, she doesn’t want Eddie’s help. Oh, and there’s also the fact Jet’s pathologically shy, especially around hot guys. The problem is, Jet’s ne’er-do-well father has got himself in a heap of trouble, and in trying to get him out, Jet buys herself even more. So much—unless Eddie can rescue her—it might just get her dead.

These are the memories of the author's growing up during the 1930's and 1940's, centering on her paternal grandmother and her beloved camp on the St. Lawrence River. It was a time of both stress and mirth, but always one of hospitality. The author is a retired certified Clinical Specialist in Mental Health Nursing and lives with her husband and dog in Vale, NC overlooking the South Mountains. She is currently writing a book about their much loved cocker spaniel Barkley.