{"id":2090,"date":"2012-07-06T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2012-07-09T09:29:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T16:29:34","slug":"an-adequate-kids-schulz-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/an-adequate-kids-schulz-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"An adequate kids’ Schulz bio"},"content":{"rendered":"

During my Beaglefest talk, I mentioned that there are two kinds of Schulz books that I love as a blogger. There are the wonderful books that I can wholeheartedly recommend that people buy, and there are the terrible ones that I can have fun being snarky about. Many of the examples that I showed of the latter were of biographies about Schulz aimed at kids.<\/p>\n

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Which is why the book Charles Schulz<\/strong><\/a> by Gloria D, Miklowitz, part of the Dominie Biography Series, is such a disappointment. Don\u2019t get me wrong, it’s not an inspiring book. It is, after all, one of a mass-produced line of biographies meant to fill the shelves at school libraries. But it\u2019s perfectly adequate, a 1,642 word biography that doesn\u2019t misspell Schulz\u2019s name, doesn\u2019t combine his two sequential wives into one giant superwife, and doesn\u2019t have hideous illustrations. It’s not up to the quality of, say, the some-what-older-targeted Sparky<\/em><\/a>, and there are a few minor factual nitpicks I can call against it (Snoopy, while part of the original cast, was not in the first strip; nor was he originally a young beagle), but all in all, if my daughter brought this home in order to write a book report about it, I would not recoil in horror. (I might wish she had a book that was more inherently creative to write a report on, but that\u2019s my own bookish snobbishness at work.)<\/p>\n

This book was published about a decade ago, and has been available as single paperback copies<\/a> or in a convenient hardcover six-pack<\/a>! (Some poor fool who thought he was ordering a six-pack of Schlitz is going to end up very disappointed.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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