Charlie Brown wants his friends Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Sally, and Schroeder to come out and play, but they're all too busy until Peppermint Patty calls them for baseball practice.

Charlie Brown has started feeling very strange and Linus decides that Charlie must be in love

“In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.” —Charlie Brown Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, he’s the Charlie Browniest. Now celebrate sixty-five years of that round-headed kid with this delightful collection of comic strips, together here for the first time, featuring Charlie Brown and the whole Peanuts gang—from Sally to Linus, Lucy to Schroeder, Snoopy to Woodstock, Peppermint Patty to Pigpen. Whether pining hopelessly after the Little Red-Haired Girl, falling yet again for Lucy’s offer to hold a football for him to kick, trick-or-treating (“I got a rock”), or simply contemplating the unfairness of life, this beloved underdog has accumulated millions of fans to cheer him on. You’re Golden, Charlie Brown is a book to treasure.

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.

"Based on the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz."

When Charlie Brown decides to make Snoopy earn his keep by giving him a job, Snoopy packs his bag and heads out west to live with Brother Spike in the desert.

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