Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 15, 2023

Hopefully something from the Bunny-wunny series will be acceptable.

If not, perhaps Snoopy’s “Dark and Stormy Night” manuscript?

What book?

Find a book that works for you Peppermint Patty.

Why do they make kids do book reports over Xmas vacation?

Just watch “A Tale of Two Cities” when it comes on TV, Peppermint Patty. Just ignore the bits about the shampoo, coffee, etc. as those aren’t part of the movie.

Patty, read Leo’s Toystore by Warren Peace!! :D

And they only get about 2 weeks off. Here in Europe it’s often 3. Our “Christmas break” starts on 22 Dec and school doesn’t start again till 7 Jan.

No wonder she doesn’t do well in school. I loved reading at that age.

Some of us will never understand the pain of reading a book during holidays.

You make that sound like a bad thing! Reading is wonderful if you can choose the book. It’s when they choose it for you and it’s some boring thing, that’s when it’s a problem.

Charlie Brown had to read War And Peace, and then Crime And Punishment during the holiday season.

My brother was on the high school swim team. Everyone on the team was overweight, and the coach told everyone to lose weight over Christmas break. My brother was the only one who actually lost weight over the holidays.

Not for you.

Remember, kids: reading is for losers. Play more video games.

The strip is from the pre-tablet and smartphone age, and is more timely now than it was when it was published.

I got Kurt Vonnegut Jr.‘s "Cat’s Cradle" for Christmas one year. I read that in two days. Just a suggestion, Patty.

Quick! Google the world’s shortest book.

And reading is a problem because….?

And knowing PP, she’ll probably put it off until the last day of said vacation…

Patty needed audiobooks. Methinks she was dyslexic.

Giving homework over holidays, what a way to ruin the holidays. One of my son’s teachers always gave a homework assignment over the holidays. I was very glad when the school year was over and the holiday homework assignments were over and done with.

Hey, last time I checked, Geisel’s book were real books.

I teach English myself, and I have met quite a few Peppermint Pattys over the years in my classes.

To read a book, a whole book, and nothing but a book.

Wow, that’s rough. In my day, the days before Xmas break were full of Xmas preparation and the last one of joy and partying. Of course we didn’t have any Patty’s in our class.

That’s ridiculous! Christmas is for fun and reflection, not reading!

I enjoy reading so it wouldn’t have bothered me much to have had a reading assignment over the Christmas break.

Interesting, she’s wearing sandals to school – and it’s almost Christmas. I bet her toes get cold on the way home.

Ho, ho, no.

Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol by Tom Mula. Quick read. Read it in bed the other day, about an hour. A great story from a different viewpoint!!

3rd Grade. For the Christmas break I checked out and read the Spirit of St Louis. That was the book the librarian called my mom and asked about the books I was checking out. Mom told her if I wanted to read it, let him!

Teachers can be mean.

At least she doesn’t have to write a book report on “Peter Rabbit” like the rest of her friends. https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=23MDbV-1-9M

Patty should find a short book about a sports player she likes. Then she’d discover reading can be very enjoyable. I love to read. Always have.

Peppermint Patty isn’t one to read a long book. Whether it’s for fun or for school.

The start of a decent arc. Gets holiday interruptions, iirc.

Plus, a 500-word essay on How I Enjoyed Christmas.

Oh man that’s what they did to me when I was entering high school. 3 whole books. The upside was that they were a great read

Now when Chuck’s too busy with War and Peace to pay attention to your crude flirtations at the New Year’s party, maybe you’ll understand!

I had students like that… very discouraging… and now we have the world today

Peppermint read Webster’s Dictionary and complained it didn’t have much of a plot

If parents would read to their kids from early on and keep it up, they wouldn’t have children like Patty who damage their lives by hating books.

Just read “The Grinch that Stole Christmas” or “A Christmas Carol”. Both would take less than 45 minutes to read and would actually be fun……

Merry Christmas, Peppermint Patty.

Poor Patty, Old Sparky never ran out of ways to treat her dumb did he?

Just read the crib notes, it’s faster

Happiness is a Christmas vacation with no book reports to write!

“A Real Book?” I like that.

I always hated doing book reports but I would always be reading books even on vacation. Right now I am reading a biography of J. S. Bach by Christoph Wolfe, no relation.

The question from today’s kids would be “What’s a book now?”

It’s nostalgic to hear it referred to as “Christmas vacation” instead of “winter break.”

LOL :)

For the class? “Catcher in the Rye.” For PP? “Rubyfruit Jungle.”

We lucky, our JC no do dat…

And to all a good night!

They don’t discover dyslexia until Patty is an adult.

no book specified so pick something on her level, the Dick, Jane and Spot books would work

“Happy Holidays” in 1976. Long before many of the insufferable doofuses who endlessly complain about the “war on Christmas” and the “woke mind virus” were even born.