A Charlie Brown Book Review

On December 9, 1965,our family was one of many who watched the first Peanuts TV special.

A few weeks later, I received five bucks from one pair of grandparents for Christmas.  That was a LOT of money for a nine-year-old in 1965!  That's about $50 bucks today.

When we drove to Tulsa (fifty miles away) in the week between Christmas and New Year's, one of the places we stopped was Louis Meyer's Bookstore.

And using my Christmas money, I bought a copy of A Charlie Brown Christmas, seen here and below in pix taken yesterday with my phone.  That rip you see in the jacket is all the way up and down; the jacket is in two main pieces.

Above are the book flaps.  Note the papers tucked behind the rear flap.

This is written in the front endpaper. I think it's my dad's printing.

Here is Mom's handwriting.  The book is "from" Grandpa and Grandma Whitley," but as I said, I bought the book with money they gave me.

When I bought the book, I remember Mr Meyer bending down and saying to Mom and Dad, "What a polite young man."  Boy, he didn't know me very well (as Bugs Bunny might say)!

What an honor to buy a book from the man I'd seen on TV!

I was in the fourth grade in December 1965.  Below is the book report I found tucked into the endpapers when I took the other pix.

That cursive's pretty good for a fourth grader!  PS I understand why I only got an "OK" on this.  Most of its length is verbatim quotations from the book.  And the concluding paragraph is kind of impersonal.  Still, the actual structure is not bad at creating an in medias res for Charlie Brown's moral crisis.

By the way ... MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!

  

See you Monday.