A Boy Named Charlie Brown

Of all the Peanuts paperback books published, this one unique in that it isn't written in "comic strip" format. Based on the Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez feature film, "A Boy Named Charlie Brown", it's reads more like a children's picture book and in classic Schulz style, a must-have for any Peanuts fan.

This book is something I remember fondly from my childhood, much like the movie of the same name. "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" was the first and in my opinion best of the Peanuts movies. Back before VHS, if you wanted to revisit "A Boy Named Charlie Brown", this was faster than waiting for it to come on TV again. The book has a very well-written text version of the story, but the highlight is the cel art from the film used to illustrate this book. (Despite having drawn the cover, Charles Schulz didn't illustrate this book.) It gives a nice look at the in-between period of Bill Melendez' work, shaking off the uncertain qualities of the early TV specials, but not quite as poished as the late 70's-1980's shows looked.

A cute adaptation of the classic "Peanuts" movie, but be sure you know what you're buying before you click on "order." I was under the impression that it was a strip-format adaptation of the film, when in fact it is more of a children's storybook, with pictures and text separate from each other. Not to point fingers, I should have been paying closer attention. Mea culpa.That said, it is a good adaptation, and I'm not at all sorry I picked it up. If I ever have kids, I'm going to read this to 'em until they're sick of it.

Be everything that you can be. That's all that anyone can ask of themselves. Sad to see it is out of print. Fond of it, very fond.

Of all the books I checked out of teh library, this was one that i remember well. I was even more thrilled when I found that the book was based on a movie. It's just another typical day for Good Ol' Charlie Brown. Everything seems to be going bad for him: he can't fly that kite of his, and his team loses the first baseball game of the season. Going to Lucy for Psychiatric help proves another fatal move. Linus tells Charlie Brown that my'be he should enter the school Spelling Bee. Charlie Brown feels confident, while Lucy and some of the other girls taunt him saying how he'll "just make a fool out of himself." However, Charlie Proves them all wrong, and then wins a chance to go to New York to take part in the "International Eliminations Spelling Bee-2nd Grade." Charlie is beside himself, but with Snoopy and Linus looking on, can he succeed even further? The artwork is actually still images from the film, with some dialogue made simpler and some scenes omitted to make the story move at a better pace. Several musical montages in the movie are also omitted. Still, this is a book I'd recommend for all elementary school students. Almost every student should know and read the "Peanuts" comics. I still read them to this day.