This is Angela Odell, and you are listening to Real Cool History for Kids, a podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical worldview perspective.

Welcome to an adventure.

Welcome to episode 164 of Real Cool History for Kids. This episode is for Liam Martin, who wanted to hear the story behind the comic strip, Peanuts.

Hey, Liam, this one's for you.

Charles Monroe Schultz, often called Sparky by his family, was the creator of the Peanuts comic strip,

the home of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, and Linus.

Let's step back in time to see how an ordinary boy from Minnesota, which is my home state, grew up to make the world smile and laugh with his witty drawings of some kids and a dog. Charles Monroe

Schultz was born on November 26th of 1922 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in St. Paul.

From the very beginning, his life was tied to cartoons.

Just two days after he was born, an uncle gave him the nickname Sparky, after a funny horse named

Sparkplug in the comic strip Barney Google. Of course, no one knew at that time that that little

baby nicknamed after a cartoon character would one day become the most beloved cartoonist in the world.

As a boy, Charles was shy and quiet, and he loved to draw.

He filled his notebooks with sketches of anything and everything around him.

He especially loved copying characters from the Sunday comics in the

newspaper. His father, Carl, was a barber who ran a small shop and his mother, Dina, kept their home.

They noticed Charles's love for drawing and encouraged him.

I want to stop here for just a moment and talk to you guys about something.

It's really, really important, and it's actually a very big part of what Charles Schultz's life was really about.

Have you ever considered how drawing and creating reflects God's character? The Bible says in Genesis 127, so God created mankind in his own image, male and female, he created them. That means

every person is made to reflect God's character. Because God is creative, he gave us the ability to be creative

to. So the next time you draw or design or build something, stop and consider how that is part

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