Snoopy Complete Collection: 7

Author: [US] Charles M. Schulz
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: Don't listen to me? I don't even know what I'm talking about! —Linus From the very beginning, I knew the main character of this comic strip should be a kid with a round head and a flat face. I decided to name him Charlie Brown. —Charles M. Schulz "Charles Schulz was not just a cartoonist. He was a philosopher. His teachings were more useful than those of the famous Aristotle, Confucius, Plato, and Socrates." —USA Today "The characters Charles Schulz created were not just iconic figures. Charlie Brown, Linus, Snoopy, Patty, Lucy, they taught us what it means to be 'human.'" —Bill Clinton (Former U.S. President)
Snoopy is sick and stays in the hospital for two weeks. This is no small matter, and everyone interferes in their own way. Lucy keeps repeating the saying, "If you have a slight fever, you need to take antibiotics," insisting he get a shot; Sally visits the store, firmly believing she will find a sympathy card specifically designed to comfort the hospitalized puppy; Charlie Brown writes him a letter, warning him to stay away from the pretty French nurse; even Frieda, who always disdains Snoopy, stops making him chase rabbits, though Alan's behavior still wounds his pride. When he's discharged, Alan refuses to be touched by him—because he doesn't want to catch the dog disease. Clearly, Alan's teasing of Snoopy is not accidental. When a bee stings Snoopy's stomach, she piles a bunch of mud on the puppy's belly, claiming it will definitely heal the wound. Alan's pranks finally get him into trouble, causing the usually uninvolved Sloth to erupt in anger. It's been a couple of months since Valentine's Day, and Alan pretends to ask Charlie Brown if he wants a Valentine's card. No wonder Sloth scolds indignantly: "You and your friends are the most thoughtless people I've ever seen."
Even fresher than Sloth's outburst is the arrival of the "Number Kids." The boy named "Five" and his twin sisters, "Three" and "Four," are inherently hilarious. They explain why their names are so unusual because their father was so annoyed by how American society relies too heavily on numbers to identify people that he decided to change the whole family's names to numbers, even their last name, which became "95472" like a ZIP code.