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How to match your unborn child with the perfect Snoopy book

We had prepared for the arrival of our first child in all the usual ways. We’d converted the spare bedroom to a nursery, picked out the perfect co-sleeper crib, and stocked up on pristine white babygrows. With my wife deep into the third trimester, there was just one time-honoured task outstanding. We still had to […]

Battered model of Snoopy cradling Woodstock to illustrate the sad ending of Peanuts, Charles M Schulz's comic strip ending after 50 years, and saying goodbye to Charlie Brown, Lucy Van Pelt, Linus van Pelt, Sally Brown, Pig-Pen, Schroeder, Franklin, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, Spike, and so on. Photo by Nicholas Blackmore.

Requiem for the Round-headed Kid: how ‘Peanuts’ ended

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Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz’s daily comic, ended on February 13, 2000 after 50 years of publication and approximately 18,000 strips. It was an incredible feat of creativity, but did the author manage to ‘stick the landing’? Today that phrase has become commonplace to assess whether a successful and long-running story concluded in a satisfying manner.

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