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Titled “Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts,” Michelle Ann Abate’s book delves deep into the characters of the world-renowned comic strip “Peanuts.” As a professor of literature for children and young adults at The Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology, Abate offers a unique perspective on the strip’s characters, particularly focusing on the unassuming little yellow bird named Woodstock. Created by the late cartoonist Charles Schulz, “Peanuts” was a far cry from the counterculture ethos popular during the 1960s and ‘7…

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