Happy 59th Birthday, Helen Sweetstory!

Ms. Sweetstory is the author of the The Six Bunny-Wunnies series of books for children, which includes The Six Bunny-Wunnies Go to Long Beach, The Six Bunny-Wunnies Make Cookies, The Six Bunny-Wunnies Join an Encounter Group, The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Layover in Anderson, Indiana, and the notorious The Six Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out, which became the subject of controversy in 1972 when a California school board attempted to ban the book from the school library.

You can learn more about Helen Sweetstory in The Complete Peanuts: 1971 to 1972, which also covers the turbulent relationship between Patricia Reichardt and Charles Brown (who was still infatuated with a red-haired girl who had moved away some time previously), the resistance of young Patty to her school’s dress code, the “Thompson is in trouble!” adventure, and the construction of a six-story parking garage on the original site of the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm. And plenty more besides.

5 April 2009 | uncategorized |