Born to Draw Comics: The Story of Charles Schulz and the Creation
of Peanuts by Ginger Wadsworth, illustrated by Craig Orback. PICTURE BOOK / NON-FICTION Christy Ottaviano Books (Henry Holt and Company),
2019. 19.
BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL – OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Charles Schulz was nicknamed Sparky after a
popular cartoon character. When Sparky
was in elementary school, he used his imagination to make creative pictures and
his teacher told him he might be an artist one day. Sparky loved reading the comic strips from
the paper and drawing his own stories about his dog Spike. Sparky went to war and when he returned he
started drawing cartoons that featured kids for the Saturday Evening Post. Eventually, Charles’ comics were named
Peanuts and became a daily comic strip in the newspapers.
This biography of the creator of the Peanuts
comic strip is simple and concise. There’s
more information in an author’s note at the back. The illustrations aren’t like the Peanuts illustrations
at all and there aren’t any pieces of the Peanuts work in the book, which was a
bit disappointing. I think most kids
will pass this book by because the art isn’t recognizable.
Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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