The Complete Peanuts-Charles Schulz

I found this little fat book in the new section of my local library.  It is the complete book of Peanuts comic strips from 1950 to 1952.  I read every square.  This is the evolution of all the Peanuts characters and shows when and how each came into the picture.  Of course, Woodstock, didn't come in til the 1960s, but we do see Charlie Brown, Lucy, Violet, Peppermint Patty, Shermie, Linus, and Schroeder with his little piano.  These were the original characters.  We see Snoopy begin to "think" and the characters mutiply. The captions in the strips heavily reflect life in the 1950s and there is an interview with Charles Shulz that I found very interesting.  Did you know that "Sparky" Schulz originally sold his strip to the St. Paul Pioneer Press for $10 a day and when he asked for a raise, they refused and he quit and took it to New York where it became an immediate success?  Check it out!