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Title: Fly, You Stupid Kite, Fly by Charles M. Schulz ISBN: 0-03-018106-2 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 1990 Format: Paperback

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Rating: 5
Summary: Actually, no kite flying, just classic 50's Peanuts strips
Comment: "Fly, You Stupid Kite, Fly!" (Originally titled "But We Love You, Charlie Brown") reprints daily Peanuts comic strips from 1957-59. I always tend to think that the best Peanuts strips came out in the 1960s, which is when I started reading it and my brother started collecting all of the paperbacks, but at the end of the 1950s Charles M. Schulz had already hit full stride. Actually, the new title is quite a misnomer, for there are only a handful of strips devoted to Charlie Brown's futile efforts to get a kite into the air. Snoopy spends more time practicing on being a vulture in this book. A better theme for this collection would have to do with all the letters that Charlie Brown writes to his Pencil-Pal, for example: "Dear Pencil-Pal, you are my only friend. Not counting you I am friendless. I have no other friends. Your friend, Charlie Brown. P.S. Everybody hates me." Of course he is wrong, but that is part of the charm of the strip. Other magic themes in this collection are, of course, the efforts of the Peanuts gang on the baseball diamond (including the class series where Charlie Brown only has to catch a high fly ball for the team to win the championship) and several excellent strips focusing on that most troubled of sibling relationships between Lucy and Linus (she lets him run after her carrying her skate key).

"Fly, You Stupid Kite, Fly!" represents the genius of Charles M. Schulz and you should take your time when you read through these strips. To quote Linus, while reading "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "This is great stuff, Charlie Brown! You've just got to take the time to read it carefully." Enjoy and if at all possible try to read through these books in chronological order. It might prove to be a lot more difficult to do it that way, but it is well worth the effort. For more strips from this period check out "Thank Goodness for People," which includes daily strips from "Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown" and wonderful Sunday strips from "Peanuts Every Sunday."