a song from a Peanuts special...







Sally: Homework!

Schroder: Homework!

Lucy: Homework!

Charlie Brown: Homework!

All: YUCK!



All: A book report on Peter Rabbit...



Sally: Peter Rabbit is this stupid book about this stupid rabbit who

stole vegetables from other people's gardens.

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17. Hmm, 83 to go.

Lucy: The name of the book about which

This book report is about is

Peter Rabbit which is about this

Rabbit.

Schroder: I found it very...

I liked the part where...

It was a...

It reminded me of Robin Hood!



Schroder: And the part where Little John jumped from the rock on the

Sherriff of Nottingham's back, and then Robin and everyone sprung from the

trees in a sudden surprise aTtack, and he captured the sherriff and all of

his goods and he carried him back to the camp in the woods and the

sherriff was guest at the dinner and all but he wiggled the call and the

men rushed in and the arrows flew...

Peter Rabbit had sort of that kind of thing too...

Sally: The other people's name was MacGregor. 18,19,20,21,22,23. Hmmm.

Linus: In examining such a work as Peter Rabbit, it is important that

the superficial characteristics of its deceptively simple plot should not

be allowed to blind the reader to the more substantial fabric of its

deeper motivations. In this report, I plan to discuss the sociallogical

implications of family pressures so great as to drive an otherwise moral

rabbit to acts of thievery, which he consciously knew where against the

law. I also hope to explore the personality of Mister MacGregor, in his

conflicting role of farmer and humanitarian. Peter Rabbit is established

from the start as a benevolent hero, and it is only with the increase of

social pressure that the seams in his moral fabric...



Charlie Brown: If I start writing now, when I'm not really rested, it

could upset my thinking, which is not good at all. I'll get a fresh start

tomorrow and it's not due till Wednesday, so I'll have all of Tuesday

unless something should happen. Why does this always happen? I should be

outside playing, getting fresh air and sunshine, I work best under

pressure, and there'll be lots of pressure if I wait till tomorrow, I

should start writing now. But if I start writing now, when I'm not really

rested, it could upset my thinking, which is not good at all...



Sally: The name of the rabbit was Peter. 24,25,26,27,28,29,30! Ha!

Schroder: Down came the staff on his head, smash!

And Robin fell like a sack full of lead, crash!

The sheriff laughed, and he left him for dead, ha!

But he was wrong!

Sally: 35,36,37,38,39,40!

Schroder: Just then an arrow flew in, whing!

It was the sign for the fight to begin, zing!

And then it looked like the sheriff would win, ha!

But not for long...

Away they ran, just like rabbits

Who run a lot

As you can tell from the story of Peter Rabbit

Who this report

Is about...



Charlie Brown: Lucy:



How do they expect us to write a

book report There were vegetables in the

Of any quality garden...

In just two days? Such as lettuce, and carrots

and onions, and mushrooms

How can they conspire to make (continues to list

vegetables



(oops.)

How can they conspire to make (continues to list

life so miserable, vegetables in background)

And so insensible in so many

ways?



Linus: Not to mention the deeply-rooted pressure exerted on him by his

extreme sibling rivalry with Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail...



Lucy: The name of the book about which,

This book report is about is...

All: Peter Rabbit, Peter Rabbit...

Sally: 74,75,76,77,78,79

Lucy: And they were very very very very very very happy to be home.

The end...

Sally: 94,95

Lucy: The very, very, very end...

Sally: Amen.



Charlie Brown: A book report on Peter Rabbit...



Sigh. One mistake: in Schroder's first section, it should read "And the

sheriff was guest at the dinner and all but he wriggled away and he

sounded the call.