It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a softcover picture book by Charles M. Schulz, adapting the beloved animated Halloween television special produced by Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez. The story follows Linus as he waits faithfully in the pumpkin patch for the Great Pumpkin, while the rest of the Peanuts gang goes trick-or-treating and Snoopy takes to the skies as the World War I Flying Ace. This Signet Special edition was published by The New American Library as an authorized reprint of the original World Publishing Company hardcover. Catalog number E4145. Illustrations are drawn directly from the famous television production. First Signet printing September 1969, originally copyright 1967 by United Features Syndicate. Printed in the United States of America.