{"id":146,"date":"2005-01-07T19:37:36","date_gmt":"2005-01-08T02:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=146"},"modified":"2005-01-07T19:37:36","modified_gmt":"2005-01-08T02:37:36","slug":"186-words-about-schulz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/186-words-about-schulz\/","title":{"rendered":"186 words about Schulz"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised, I now have the First Biographies book on Charles M. Schulz<\/a>. This is the youngest-aimed of the school Schulz bios yet, giving us 186 words aimed at kids in the pre-kindergarten through second grade range. It’s about the size of a Little Golden Book (for those used to kids books) with a glossy, jacketless hardcover. And, as seems common with these things, it’s a mite too organized — the 186 words are broken down into five chapters, with nineteen index entries, a glossary, and a list of three other school-oriented Schulz bios for those interested in reading more.<\/p>\n

The reading is easy and, well, largely accurate. I’m willing to consider the claim that the first Peanuts cartoon was on TV in 1965 to be a judgment call (the earlier Peanuts animations on TV were for ads.) And when they say about the strip “The publisher named it Peanuts<\/em>,” I’m really tempted to let that go as a judgment call, to say that they didn’t want to explain the difference between a syndicate<\/em> and a publisher<\/em>. But when the word publisher<\/em> is included in the glossary and fairly accurately defined, then it’s clear that there is a difference between the two concepts.<\/p>\n

But thinking about it, I have to take away the benefit of the doubt on the first judgment call. In the glossary, cartoon<\/em> is defined as a funny drawing. Give that the word is only used three times in the book (see, the index does come in handy), it should apply to all of them — and certainly, 1965 was not the first time a funny drawing of Peanuts was on TV. <\/p>\n

And then the glossary defines comic strip<\/em> as a story told using panels of cartoons<\/em>, which suggests that if the drawings aren’t funny (as per the previous definition), then it’s not a comic strip. Take that, Mary Worth!<\/p>\n

Well, that’s more words about the book than the book has words about Schulz (although admittedly, there’s has pictures, and they’re better chosen than some of these kiddie biographies.) Still, I can’t say that a kid would get much out of it. There’s not much story shown in the story of his life, and no real exposure of his character. A Peanuts storybook would likely be of much more interest to your kids than this. So this is another book that’s only for the maniacal collector… like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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