Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years

By Charles M. Schulz

Join Charlie Brown and the gang for 60 years of Peanuts classics.

Sixty years of Peanuts, generations of fans, a gang of beloved characters, but only one creator: the legend, Charles M. Schulz.

Andrews McMeel is proud to showcase the exclusive Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years. It is packed with commentary from throughout Schulz's career, making this book not only a heartwarming tribute but also a true collector's item.

This special 60th anniversary tribute is arranged decade, to spotlight the highlights and development of this world favorite classic.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740785486
• ISBN13: 9780740785481
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 7.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 13.1" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Great book

I received this book for Christmas this year. I'm an avid Peanuts fan and read the book cover to cover. It chronicles each decade of the Peanuts comic strip with selected clips from the daily and Sunday strip. It also includes interesting milestones and facts about Charles Schultz and his wonderful characters. It's a great way to go through the history of the Peanuts and witness all the changes throughout the years. I highly recommend this book as a great addition to your Peanuts collection.

A Must Own For Casual and Hardcore Fans Alike

One review for the casual fan, one review for the hardcore fan. CASUAL Buy this immediately; case closed. If you plan on remaining a casual Peanuts fan it will be all that you need for the rest of your life, and if you become a hardcore Peanuts fan because of this remarkable collection's capacity to convince, it will hold up as a worthwhile and useful purchase even after you've expanded your collection. HARDORE You face a more complex situation. If you're already a Peanuts diehard, most likely you're working on or already own everything released so far in Fantagraphic's essential Complete Peanuts series. Since Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years only draws from highlights, why do we need yet another expensive selective Peanuts edition, when eventually we will have them all in Fantagraphic's fine volumes? Is Celebrating Peanuts indicative of the more unfortunate, fringe-commercialized aspects of Peanuts, while The Complete Peanuts is where the true fans maintain their loyalties? I was asking myself this question when I first found out about this new collection, but it was so handsome and I'm such an impulsive buyer when it comes to Schulz that I sprung for it anyway, and far from feeling I may have wasted my money, far from feeling merely "relieved", I was doing a Snoopy dance at the quality of this set. This collection performs a function that is different than but just as important as that of the Complete Peanuts series. The Complete Peanuts is great for diehards hungry to see how the strip developed in great detail. It's good for scholarly work and archival purposes, as well as utter immersion. Celebrating Peanuts, on the other hand, strikes me first and foremost as a concentrated, self-contained and not incomplete plea for wider recognition of Schulz the Man as not just the "most world's beloved cartoonist" but as one of the greatest artistic geniuses of the second half of the 20th century. There have been other high profile takes on Schulz the Man and pleas for recognition of his genius: the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California is no doubt a must-stop for Peanuts fans, largely for seeing Schulz's originals in person, but the biographical sense we get of Schulz from a visit there is understandably antiseptic, harmless, and uncomplicatedly reverent. The second high profile take on Schulz is David Michaelis's biography from a few years back, Schulz and Peanuts. The book is a great read, informative, and essential for Peanuts nuts, but much of its accuracy is contested, and it gives us a rather stock portrait of Schulz as a suffering artist, which, though probably more true to life than the Mr. Rogers other sources would have us think of, is nevertheless incomplete, and does not capture the joy and happiness present in Schulz's life and work. Preoccupied with extramarital melodrama, the biography also fails to give us enough insight into Schulz the Artist, his methods, what made his art as important as it is, to really be a serious argument for

The BEST Peanauts book !!

I have read Peanuts ever since it first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle eons ago. Charlie Brown,Snoopy, Linus with is blanket, Lucy with her advice for 5 cents and not to forget Schroeder & his piano playing and of course Woodstock the bird, Snoopy's best friend. When I received this book, it was a great pleasure to read from the beginning to the very last strip. To me, it is a treasure to have..to read & re-read...so far, I have to be honest, I've skimmed the complete book & enjoyed every minute. Thank you, Charles Schultz. I highly recommend this to every Penuts reader.

A Must Have for Snoopy Fans

When I was growing up I would not leave the house until I saw what kind of day Charlie Brown was having. As a true longtime Snoopy fan I love this great coffee table book. What wonderful memories to relive again and again. Charles Schultz was so talented and I miss his Peanuts everyday. When I heard that he had passed away I cried as if I had lost a family member. God Bless Snoopy and the gang

beautiful collectors item!!

this is a much anticipated, long needed, celebration of Charles Schulz lifes work. amazing detail and quality. it will take months to go through this mammoth book cover to cover. well worth the price. excellent coffee table book. good for life long fans of peanuts or the new generation to discover peanuts for the first time!! great book.