Lose the Blanket, Linus!

Brief Description: "Based on the comic strips by Charles M. Schulz."Brief Description: Lucy thinks Linus is too attached to his blanket and wants to see what will happen to him without it. Marc Notes: Based on the comic strips by Charles M. Schulz.; Lucy thinks Linus is too attached to his blanket and wants to see what will happen to him without it. Publisher Marketing: Lucy tries to convince Linus to get rid of his beloved blanket in this classic 8x8 storybook based on a favorite "Peanuts "adventure! Linus's big sister Lucy thinks it's time for him to give up his baby blanket. Trying to be grown up and brave, Linus gives his blanket to Snoopy to hold on to, and tells him not give it back. But can Linus survive without his blanket forever? Can he even make it through one night? (c) 2015 Peanuts Worldwide LLC Review Citations:

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2003 pg. 351 (EAN 9780689854743, Library Binding)

Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2003 pg. 351 (EAN 9780689854743, Library Binding)

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2003 pg. 351 (EAN 9780689854729, Paperback)

Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2003 pg. 351 (EAN 9780689854729, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Schulz, Charles M Charles M. Schulz was born November 25, 1922, in Minneapolis. His destiny was foreshadowed when an uncle gave him, at the age of two days, the nickname Sparky (after the racehorse Spark Plug in the newspaper strip Barney Google). In his senior year in high school, his mother noticed an ad in a local newspaper for a correspondence school, Federal Schools (later called Art Instruction Schools). Schulz passed the talent test, completed the course, and began trying, unsuccessfully, to sell gag cartoons to magazines. (His first published drawing was of his dog, Spike, and appeared in a 1937 Ripley's Believe It or Not! installment.) Between 1948 and 1950, he succeeded in selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post as well as, to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press, a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks. It was run in the women's section and paid $10 a week. After writing and drawing the feature for two years, Schulz asked for a better location in the paper or for daily exposure, as well as a raise. When he was turned down on all three counts, he quit. He started submitting strips to the newspaper syndicates. In the spring of 1950, he received a letter from the United Feature Syndicate, announcing their interest in his submission, Li'l Folks. Schulz boarded a train in June for New York City; more interested in doing a strip than a panel, he also brought along the first installments of what would become Peanuts and that was what sold. (The title, which Schulz loathed to his dying day, was imposed by the syndicate.) The first Peanuts daily appeared October 2, 1950; the first Sunday, January 6, 1952. Diagnosed with cancer, Schulz retired from Peanuts at the end of 1999. He died on February 13, 2000, the day before Valentine's Day and the day before his last strip was published having completed 17,897 daily and Sunday strips, each and every one fully written, drawn, and lettered entirely by his own hand an unmatched achievement in comics. Contributor Bio:  Pope, Robert Robert Pope is Reader in Theology at the University of Wales, Trinity St David, based at Lampeter, UK. He is also a minister of the United Reformed Church. Contributor Bio:  Gallo, Tina Tina Gallo is an award-winning author who has worked in children's publishing for twenty years. She has written more than sixty children's books and currently resides in Throggs Neck, New York.