8 THE COMPLETE PEANUTS FAMILY ALBUM

      FOREWORD

      BY BERKELEY BREATHED

      C

      haracter counts” said my mother all too often, usually

      as a rebuke.

      As always, I underestimated her shrewdness in literary

      matters, although she didn’t know at the time she was being

      brilliant in areas apart from my attraction to dirty jokes at

      age twelve.