It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

by Charles M. Schulz

Other authorsTom Brannon (Illustrator.), Lauryn Tuchman (Author.)
Paper Book, 2016

Status

Available

Call number

JHOL HAL SCH

Call number

JHOL HAL SCH

Local notes

Youth

Description

Linus convinces Sally to wait for the Great Pumpkin to arrive on Halloween.

Publication

Philadelphia : RP/KIDS, [2016]

Original publication date

1967

User reviews

LibraryThing member patsila
Honestly, we'd all rather just watch the DVD. Some of the more recent adaptations are fun reading material, but this is pretty dry.
LibraryThing member mercedesromero
Charlie Brown and Snoopy are favorites for children everywhere and it's something that they can relate to with their parents. Easy comprehension levels allow children to enjoy this book more!
LibraryThing member JDHensley
This book was about Linus who believes there is a Great Pumpkin who comes every Halloween and brings toys to the kids who believe in him. His sister Lucy calls him stupid and is embarassed by him. But at the end of the book Lucy gets up at 4:00 A.M. to go get Linus and bring him home. The next day
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Linus still believes he will see the Great Pumpkin next year. Children will learn that it's okay to believe in their ideas even when others don't think you're right. They will see Lucy, the sister being nice and taking care of Linus even though she thinks believing in the Great Pumpkin is crazy.
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LibraryThing member khendr4
In my opinion, the classic story of "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" is a great book for children to read. One of the major things I like about this book is the fact that it is a seasonal book. If you plan on changing your classroom libraries books around for different holidays and seasons,
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this would be a great addition because of its content area. Another thing I like about this book is that there is a TV version of the story as well and they are told the same way. To follow up with this book, children can find the video online or catch it on TV around Halloween and see the pages come to life. Something else I liked about the book was the illustrations. When it became night time, the whole page was black with only the text in a white box, making for a very dramatic setting and tone for the story. Some of the illustrations also speak for themselves, as there are a few pages without text which makes the child completely rely on the illustration to imagine what is going on in the story without actually reading it. I also liked the incorporation of some words that some readers might find challenging, which can help expand the readers vocabulary. Some words the stood out to me in this case were "restitution", "silhouette", "riddled", and "desperately" which seemed to be at a higher level of vocabulary than the rest of the book in general. The main idea of the story was to believe whatever your heart desires, and don't let others bring you down for it.
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LibraryThing member MeditationesMartini
This suffers from that thing with kids' books made of kids' shows where the show just shows Lucy giving her toothy grin and it's visual shorthand for her malevolence, but here you have to keep reading "she said with a toothy grin." Why even make a book of the cartoon of a comic strip?
LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
Based upon the animated Peanuts holiday movie of the same name, broadcast on American television in 1966, this sweet picture-book follows the (mis)adventures of Charlie Brown and his friends on Halloween night. The somewhat befuddled Linus is convinced that the Great Pumpkin - a holiday gift-giver
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with a sack of presents for children, who is said to visit the most "sincere" pumpkin patch - will come this year. Mocked by his bossy sister Lucy, Linus sticks to his beliefs, and is joined in his wait by Sally, Charlie Brown's little sister. Although that young girl is disappointed at the outcome of their nighttime watch, Linus is not dissuaded. Perhaps next year, he will find the right patch in which to wait...

The edition of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown that I read was published in 2015, and lists someone named Kara McMahon as an adapter, so I would assume that the story I experienced was not the full version, as written by Schulz. Leaving that issue aside, I found the narrative enjoyable enough, but not outstanding. I couldn't help feeling, as I read along, that I was meant to find things more amusing and more poignant, than I really did. I wonder if I would have felt differently, if I grew up watching the television show? We didn't have a television in the house when I was young, so I've never seen any of the Peanuts specials. In any case, this is one I would recommend to Peanuts fans primarily, especially if they have fond memories of the television special upon which it is based.
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ISBN

0762461055 / 9780762461059
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