About this Book

"It's tough to be a little kid." For fifty years, the Peanuts gang shared wit and wisdom with more than 300 million fans around the world. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and their friends taught us life-lessons about love, hope, and faith, and their creator, cartoonist Charles Schulz, became a mythic figure himself. How did a boy too shy to join his school art club fuse his extraordinary talent and empathy to become one of the most beloved cartoonists of all time? Readers can take a fascinating life journey behind the cartoonist's pen with author Mike Schuman and find out.