The following blog entry was written by Meredith Matthews, the editor of Current Health magazine.

Happy Halloween! 

Amid all the decorating, last-minute costume-planning, and candy gobbling, hopefully you got a chance to watch the classic TV special, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. (If not, you can always rent it!)

This year marks the 40th anniversary of this childhood favorite, and if your childhood was anything like mine, Halloween just wasn't complete without watching Linus waiting in his "sincere" pumpkin patch for the Santa Claus-like Great Pumpkin, and laughing at Charlie Brown as he bungled his costume. Good grief!

Truly devoted fans of the show need to own this book. It is about the making of the program. It includes the entire script, artwork, and interviews with some of the people who helped make The Great Pumpkin happen.

Too bad the publishers didn't package the book with a DVD of the special, though. Somewhere Charlie Brown is still saying, "I got a rock."