By Charles Schulz. Highly Recommended.
In this volume, Snoopy emerges as the true alter ego of Schulz: the trickster whose freedom is founded on his confidence that he is loveable at heart. Meanwhile, the children's personalities are settling into their now-familiar contours, with longer narrative sequences centering around Linus' blanket, Charlie Brown's kite, Lucy's competition with Beethoven, baseball, etc.
Features an introduction by Jonathan Franzen, a biography of Schulz, and an index to characters, objects and themes. Fantagraphics, 2005
HC, 8x7, 328pg, b&w