The Great Pumpkin rises every October — and so does this irresistible little book. Collecting Schulz’s original 1959–1962 strips, it’s the origin story behind a beloved holiday classic. Linus’s quiet, unwavering faith is as charming as ever. A perfect autumn read-aloud. Good grief, it’s wonderful.
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Some beliefs are worth waiting for. And every October, Linus Van Pelt proves it.
This charming, fun-sized gift book collects the classic Peanuts strips from 1959 to 1962 that gave birth to one of pop culture’s most enduring traditions. For nearly 50 years, Linus’s unwavering faith in the Great Pumpkin has made us laugh, made us think, and — if we’re honest — made us root for the little guy in the round-headed blanket.
The premise is simple and quietly brilliant: every Halloween, Linus insists that the Great Pumpkin rises from the most sincere pumpkin patch and delivers gifts to good children around the world. Lucy scoffs. Charlie Brown chuckles. Baby Sally is skeptical. And yet Linus persists — year after year — with a kind of Quixotic idealism that Charles M. Schulz renders with both gentle humor and genuine warmth.
These strips are the origin story behind the beloved animated television special, and they hold up beautifully on their own. Schulz’s genius was always in finding the profound inside the ordinary — and nowhere is that clearer than in Linus’s annual vigil in the pumpkin patch.
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It’s the kind of book you’ll want to pull off the shelf every autumn, right around the time the air turns crisp and the pumpkins appear. We’ve got a good feeling about this one.
| Weight | 0.30 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.80 × 0.50 × 5.80 in |
| Book Author | Charles Schulz |
| Fiction Type | |
| Subject | Comic Strips & Cartoons, Comics & Graphic Novels, Form, Holidays & Celebrations, Humor, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Media Tie-in, Other, Non-religious |
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