This second volume of Charles M. Schulz to discover the evolution of the first few years. Thus, Schroeder clearly becomes a monomaniac piano and Beethoven, all his passions revolving around music. Lucy, besides that to annoy her mother, her brother and Charlie Brown, discovered an exceptional talent for golf that his youth and naivety will prevent the exploit. Charlie Brown is even more imbued with itself but is still facing the scorn of the other children who demean and make fun of him more often than not. Linus tries to play and have fun like a normal baby but her sister or even Snoopy are inevitably water down his plans. Snoopy finally think of a way more successful and gradually leaves his coat of tenure to take a central place in the strip.
Charles Schulz is therefore evolve his little world with subtlety and tenderness, his Peanuts know at that time a great success, offering an unexpected fame to its author. The quaintness of situations and occupations obsolete children can sometimes smile, but much of the humor remained alive as the themes are universal: loneliness, mockery weaker than oneself, vanity or love affairs Children here are always described with amazing finesse. The reader will understand French (thanks to the preface) the historical and social importance that had this comic strip in the United States. Abandoning slapstick humor or adventure, fetish genres until his colleagues, Charles Schulz is resolutely oriented unexplored land gently satirical column, regularly pointing faults of his countrymen without judging or to mock openly. An example of subtlety that still refers office today. What remains today of these strips beginnings! Humor in everyday life and asked that confronts young children to values while changing.
