The World According to Snoopy and sundry other things

I just picked up a copy of The World According to Snoopy, which was released in the UK late last year. This hardcover book, with its cover akin to a 1970s textbook, falls into the “inspirational messages” category. It’s pages are a mix of single-page displays of individual Peanuts strips (always in black-and-white) with pages that work more as mini-posters, with a quote from a Peanuts character at bottom and an image of that character (which kinda matches the quote but which is probably not taken from the same source) above, and these often have bits of color. Despite the title, it’s not all Snoopy, nor does it stick to one theme; there are sections of “Quotes to help you feel… happy”, “… grateful”, “… cosy” (remember, the British don’t like the letter “zee”, they even call it the wrong name), “…inspired”, “… good”, as well as “Quotes for when you’re feeling sad”. So it doesn’t have that targeted sense that makes it a good gift item for a certain occasion, but it’s a reasonable…