This volume of The Complete Peanuts is particularly romance-heavy as the Charlie Brown Peppermint Patty Marcie triangle heats up love blossoms between two of the 'Beagle Scout' birds and Linus is still not Sally's 'Sweet Babboo'! Meanwhile, Charlie Brown becomes, in his worst baseball-related humiliation to date, a Pelican - and Snoopy's brother Spike is still stuck in Needles, surrounded by coyotes, with a cactus as his only friend.