When reading Peanuts or watching the many cartoon adaptations, many of us have wondered just how autobiographical it might be. Providing interesting, detailed answers to this question for fans 6 and up, Ginger Wadsworth recounts the formative years of Charles Schulz, whose dreams of being a professional cartoonist were temporarily deferred by deployment in World War II and personal bereavement. Rendering parts of this inspiring story in comic book panels, Craig Orback uses pen, ink, acrylic, and gouache to create a lively and accurate facsimile of Minnesota in the 1930s-50s.