The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 (Complete Peanuts #9)

by Charles M Schulz (Author)

The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 (Complete Peanuts #9)
Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade

Still, Snoopy looms large, so this volume (a particularly Snoopy-heavy one) sees him arm-wrestling Lucy as the "Masked Marvel" and then taking off for Petaluma for the national arm-wrestling championship; impersonating a vulture and a "Cheshire Beagle"; enjoying golf and hockey; attempting a jaunt to France for an ice-skating championship; running for office on the "Paw" ticket; being traded to Peppermint Patty's baseball team, then un-traded and installed as team manager by a guilt-ridden Charlie Brown; as well as dealing with the return of his original owner, Lila. If you're surprised by that last one, imagine how Charlie Brown feels...

Lila makes only a brief appearance (as does José Peterson, a short-lived -- and short -- star member of Charlie Brown's baseball team), but this volume sees the appearance of what would be Schulz's most controversial major character: Franklin. (Yes, in 1968 the introduction of a black character caused a stir.) Peppermint Patty, working toward her ascendancy as one of the major Peanuts players in the 1970s and 1980s, also has several major turns, including a storyline in which she's the tent monitor for three little girls (who call her "Sir" -- a joke Schulz would pick up later with Peppermint Patty's friend Marcie).

Stories involving other characters include a sequence in which Linus's flippant comment to his Gramma that he'll kick his blanket habit when she kicks her smoking habit backfires; Lucy bullies Linus, pesters Schroeder, and organizes a "crab-in"; plus Charlie Brown copes with Valentine's Day depression, the Little Red-Haired Girl, the increasingly malevolent kite-eating tree, and baseball losses. In other words: Vintage Peanuts! All this, plus an introduction by beloved transgressive filmmaker John Waters and award-winning design by Seth.

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Charles M Schulz
Charles M. Schulz is a legend. He was the hand and heart behind fifty years of Peanuts, which featured one of the world's most beloved and recognizable casts of cartoon characters, until his death in 2000.

Natalie Shaw has written dozens of books for kids of all ages and has loved reading ever since she got her first library card. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.

With over thirty years in animation, comic books, magazine illustration, and children's books, Robert Pope's family has seen a great deal of the back of his head. Robert currently illustrates the Peanuts gang for both BOOM comics and Simon Spotlight's Ready-to-Read series. He also pencils Looney Tunes for DC comics! Robert has drawn for Scooby-Doo, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Johnny Bravo, The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and many others for both comics and animation.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781560978268
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Publication date
May 01, 2008
Series
Complete Peanuts
BISAC categories
HUM001000 - Humor | Form | Comic Strips & Cartoons
Library of Congress categories
United States
Comic books, strips, etc
Snoopy (Fictitious character)
Brown, Charlie (Fictitious character)
Schulz, Charles M
Van Pelt, Lucy (Fictitious character)

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