Charles M. Schulz Books In Order

Publication Order of The Complete Peanuts Books

Publication Order of Charlie Brown Dictionary Books

Publication Order of Charlie Browns Cyclopedia Books

Publication Order of Festive Peanuts Books

Publication Order of Passionate Peanuts Books

Publication Order of Peanuts at Work and Play Books

Publication Order of Peanuts Board Books Books

Publication Order of Peanuts Every Sunday Books

Publication Order of Peanuts Gang Books

Publication Order of Peanuts Graphic Novels Books

Publication Order of Peanuts Guide to Life Books

Publication Order of Peanuts Kids Books

Publication Order of Peanuts Miscellaneous Books

Publication Order of Peanuts Miscellaneous Collections Books

Publication Order of Peanuts Pop-Up Books Books

Publication Order of Peanuts Ready-To-Read Books

Publication Order of Peanuts Wisdom Books

Publication Order of Collections

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Publication Order of Snoopy Stars Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

Charles M. Schulz was a cartoonist and creator best known for creating the Peanuts comic strip. It would become so popular that it would eventually be adapted for books, TV, and other merchandise. The author was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 where his uncle called him Sparky in honor of a character from the Barney Google comic strip. His family then lived in St Paul where his father Carl earned a living as a barber. For much of his youth, he used to read the funnies with his father as a Sunday morning ritual. It was during this time that he developed a fascination with strips such as Popeye, Mickey Mouse, and Skippy. He had always wanted to grow up and become a cartoonist but the biggest catalyst was when he saw his drawing of the family dog Spike in a Ripley’s Believe It Or Not nationally syndicated feature. When he was a high school senior, he began taking his art more seriously. Getting a lot of encouragement from his mother, he enrolled at the Art Instruction Schools then known as the Federal School of Applied Cartooning for a cartoon course.

From the late 1920s to the 1940s, Charles continued to hone his artistic style through study and practice, even as comic art was in a state of change. He was lucky that during the 1920s and 1930s, most of the full-page comics provided artists with space to reflect the sensibilities of the day and the Art Deco details. Nonetheless, most editors from the 1940s and 1950s preferred minimalism, and hence they asked their cartoonists to minimize their pen strokes, shrink strip size, and sharpen their humor with cerebral humor and daily gags since much of their audience was increasingly educated. Schulz’s self-intellectual, dry, and self-effacing humor would be perfect for the evolving standards of the culture in which he lived.

In 1943, Charles M. Schulz lost his mother to cervical cancer which devastated him. Trying to get away from it all, he hopped on a train and went to Camp Campbell to begin his army career. After he came back from the war in 1945, he went to live with his father in St Paul where the latter had a barbershop. Determined to become a cartoonist, he found a job at Art Instruction where he once studied. During this time, Charles also used to sell one-panel cartoons to a city paper. He also came up with Li’l Folks, a weekly panel comic that ran on the St Paul Pioneer Press for three years. His early cartoons were for the most part about drawings of large-headed and precocious children who interacted with actions and words well beyond their years. His first strip in the Peanuts series was published in several national newspapers in 1950. Even though he had always dreamed of becoming a professional cartoonist for much of his life, he would never have imagined that his work would have such a massive global impact.

The continuing appeal of his most popular work Peanuts comes from Charles’ ability to connect to his audience and make observations better than any other cartoonist. He is deemed a genius in how he always keeps his characters fresh and in the limelight thus attracting new readers and retaining the attention of his current audience. Charles M. Schulz would become known for his humor which was sometimes melancholy, wry, silly, observational, bittersweet, nostalgic, and sarcastic. He would also have a penchant for occasional suspension of reality and flights of fancy. When he said he was retiring in 1999, his book collections were translated into more than 25 languages while his popular Peanuts strip was syndicated into more than 2600 national newspapers around the world. He has received many awards for his comic strips and animated specials, including recognition from the American and foreign governments. Up to the present, the characters in the Peanuts Gang continue to inspire and entertain fans of all ages.

Charlie Brown: Here We Go Again is a classic work that Charles M. Schulz first published in 1950. It is a story of the Peanuts gang which involves unkicked footballs, overzealous hall monitors and sibling rivalry at its best. Lucy has been offering her psychiatric advice to clients but they are not so sure if her offer is worth the money. Meanwhile, Snoopy’s dinner bowl was dropped deep among the enemy, and getting it back from the neighbor’s cat will not be an easy task. Finally, the hero will have to collaborate with his secret crush who is a little red-haired girl on a school project. It is a work that comes with the usual old tricks and some new ones thrown in making for some laugh-out-loud stories. Most of the stories are about Lucy and even though some are new, they are all worth the price.

Charlie Brown: All Tied Up is an intriguing work of fiction by Charles M. Schulz. In this novel, Eudora, who is just about everyone’s favorite character, comes back. This time around, she is Sally’s student rather than being her friend in summer camp. The other characters are busy doing what we love them for even though Lucy is a thorn in Schroeder’s side when the latter would prefer to just be left alone to fiddle with his musical instruments. Marcie and Peppermint Patty are in Class even as Linus is in bed at home even though Lucy believes he is pretending to be ill. Snoopy plays hockey with Woodstock while Snoopy is antagonistic to the neighbor cat. What is more interesting in this collection is that Peppermint Patty falls in love and seems to be coming into her own in class. Snoopy is more prominent in this collection and together with all the other characters they are perfect at reminding us of the foolishness of youth.

Charles M. Schulz’s Snoopy: What’s Wrong with Dog Lips is another brilliant collection of short stories. In this outing, Snoopy is visited by someone he once knew while he and his friend celebrate the holidays which usually come with cheerful traditions. As usual, the Peanut Gang is having some great adventures set anywhere from Snoopy Dog’s house to the iconic ballpark. Even though it sometimes rains and snows, that never slows the gang down. Yet again, a humorous work with entertaining storylines, cute panels, and excellent artwork to go with beloved characters we have become used to over the years.