Sonderbooks Book Review of

by Charles M. Schulz

introduction by Mo Willems

It's so delightful to get my hands on another volume of The Complete Peanuts, twice a year. In this volume, we have some references to the Vietnam War (with a protest at Daisy Hill Puppy Farm), and Lucy embraces feminism. Snoopy suffers through a stint as Head Beagle, and Woodstock finally receives his name.

I think my favorite thing about this volume is that it includes Snoopy's efforts to be a novelist, and includes his complete novel, including the sentence that ties all the threads together (Spoiler alert!):

Ah, the joys of writing! We also see Snoopy in the throes of rejection-slip shock being soothed by a line from Lucy's Psychiatric Help booth: "What you have written, Snoopy, is just as good as a lot of other things you see being published these days..." Isn't that the truth?

May the volumes of The Complete Peanuts keep coming!