Many new characters appear in one of Schulz\'s most creative periods.
It\'s another two years of the greatest comic strip of all time, full of laughs and surprises.. (Honest ) Add in Sally\'s new camp friend Eudora, the thuggish caddymaster who shoots down Peppermint Patty and Marcie\'s new vocation, an entire hockey team, and a surprise repeat appearance by Linus\'s sweetheart Truffles (creating a love triangle with Sally), all in addition to the usual cast of beloved characters (including the talking schoolhouse and the doghouse-jigsawing cat, who gets hold of Linus\'s blanket in this one), and you\'ve got a veritable crowd of characters. who then reappears later in the book, now facing off against her nemesis, Crybaby Boobie.
Also: a tennis-playing Snoopy ends up reluctantly teamed with the extreme Type A athlete Molly Volley...
For instance, in an epic five-week sequence, when Charlie Brown, found guilty by the EPA of biting the Kite-Eating tree, he goes on the lam and ends up coaching the Goose Eggs, a group of diminutive baseball players, Austin, Ruby, Leland, and--did you know there was a second black Peanuts character, aside from Franklin?--Milo.
With an introduction by Alec Baldwin.
Many new characters appear in one of Schulz\'s most creative periods
