It's a Long Way to Tipperary (Peanuts Parade 2)

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Summary: "Who's creating a disturbance? I'm a pilot with the Allies!"
Review: A shorter version of this book was published in 1967 as _You'll Flip, Charlie Brown_; it was retitled in 1976 when it was expanded with strips from _The Unsinkable Charlie Brown_. Don't be misled by the title; the WWI flying ace and his endless struggles against the Red Baron are present, but there aren't many of them here. The down-behind-enemy-lines thread with the title quote, of course, *is* here. (How many aces got KP for losing too many Sopwith Camels?) Oddly enough, the 1993 front cover art was of Snoopy as a soldier of the Foreign Legion instead of as the WWI flying ace.

The book has no introduction, afterword, or anything except various strips of the adventures of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and other members of the world's worst Little League team. Cool. The strips include, among other things, Charlie Brown vs. the kite-eating tree; Charlie Brown at the psychiatric help booth when Lucy's assistant (Snoopy) is filling in; Lucy as arm-wrestling champ; Charlie Brown's brief assignment to the school safety patrol. In addition to a lesser-known thread featuring Linus having talked Peppermint Patty into waiting for the Great Pumpkin (the famous one being the one with Sally), some more conventional letters to Santa Claus are thrown in. Some threads with a point (I can't call them *serious*, since they're still funny): Charlie Brown dealing with Sally when she starts lying to her teacher.

And Linus built armies of snowmen long before Calvin and Hobbes thought of it.