Charlie Brown panics when selected to escort the homecoming queen to the big post-football game dance.

Charlie Brown may have captured the hearts of millions, but his heart will forever belong to the elusive Little Red-Haired Girl. This collection of strips explores his undying love and devotion to the object of his affection - just don't tell Peppermint Patty!

"The comic strips in this book were originally published in newspapers worldwide"--T.p. verso.

Romance is in the Air! Charlie Brown may have captured the hearts of millions, but his heart will forever belong to the ever-elusive Little Red-Haired Girl. Reading these never-before-compiled strips of (undeclared) romance, you'll get butterflies in your stomach as Charlie Brown ponders the perfect Valentine for the apple of his eye. It was love at first sight for Charles Schulz's most endearing Peanuts character - and now you can share in Charlie Brown's quest to declare his undying devotion to the Little Red-Haired Girl....Just don't tell Peppermint Patty!

Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang. In postwar America, there was no newspaper comic strip more recognizable than Charles Schulz's Peanuts. It was everywhere, not just in thousands of daily newspapers. For nearly fifty years, Peanuts was a mainstay of American popular culture in television, movies, and merchandising, from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to the White House to the breakfast table. Most people have come to associate Peanuts with the innocence of childhood, not the social and political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. Some have even argued that Peanuts was so beloved because it was apolitical. The truth, as Blake Scott Ball shows, is that Peanuts was very political. Whether it was the battles over the Vietnam War, racial integration, feminism, or the future of a nuclear world, Peanuts was a daily conversation about very real hopes and fears and the political realities of the Cold War world. As thousands of fan letters, interviews, and behind-the-scenes documents reveal, Charles Schulz used his comic strip to project his ideas to a mass audience and comment on the rapidly changing politics of America. Charlie Brown's America covers all of these debates and much more in a historical journey through the tumultuous decades of the Cold War as seen through the eyes of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang.

Linus describes the summer camp activities that made vacation seem too short.