Walter R. Brooks Books In Order

Freddy the Pig Books In Publication Order

  1. Freddy Goes to Florida (1927)
  2. Freddy Goes to the North Pole (1930)
  3. Freddy the Detective (1932)
  4. The Story of Freginald (1936)
  5. The Clockwork Twin (1937)
  6. Freddy the Politician (1939)
  7. Freddy’s Cousin Weedly (1940)
  8. Freddy and the Ignormus (1941)
  9. Freddy and the Perilous Adventure (1942)
  10. Freddy and the Bean Home News (1943)
  11. Freddy and Mr. Camphor (1944)
  12. Freddy and the Popinjay (1945)
  13. Freddy the Pied Piper (1946)
  14. Freddy the Magician (1947)
  15. Freddy Goes Camping (1948)
  16. Freddy Plays Football (1949)
  17. Freddy the Cowboy (1950)
  18. Freddy Rides Again (1951)
  19. Freddy the Pilot (1952)
  20. Freddy and the Space Ship (1953)
  21. The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig (1953)
  22. Freddy and the Men from Mars (1954)
  23. Freddy and the Baseball Team from Mars (1955)
  24. Freddy and Simon the Dictator (1956)
  25. Freddy and the Flying Saucer Plans (1957)
  26. Freddy and the Dragon (1958)
  27. The Wit and Wisdom of Freddy and His Friends (1999)
  28. Art of Freddy (2002)

Picture Books In Publication Order

  1. Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons (1965)
  2. Henry’s Dog Henry (1965)

Freddy the Pig Book Covers

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Walter R. Brooks Books Overview

Freddy Goes to Florida

It’s winter, and the barn is cold. There’s no central heating for the ducks. No quilts for the mice. The animals of Bean Farm know that Mr. Bean can’t afford to fix up their barn properly for the coming winter, so Freddy and friends decide to do the next best thing: head to Florida for a vacation. On the way south with the migrating birds, Freddy, Jinx the Cat, Charles the Rooster and the other animals foil burglars, outwit a band of hungry alligators, meet the President, and even uncover buried treasure.

Freddy Goes to the North Pole

Children all over the country are falling in love again with Walter Brooks’s talking pig and his barnyard of friends on Bean Farm in Upstate New York. First published by Knopf from 1927 through 1958, Freddy has reemerged much to the excitement of the parents and grandparents of this new generation of Freddy Fans who remember Freddy well indeed. He’s remarkably adaptable too Freddy has tried his hand at detective work, airplane piloting, magic, poetry, politics…
you name it and Freddy has given it a shot!In Freddy Goes to the North Pole, Freddy has an itch to travel and decides that the other animals on Bean Farm should join him on a little excursion. As founder and president of Barnyard Tours, Inc. Freddy chooses the North Pole as the group’s first destination. The Arctic regions turn out to be a bit chilly but a chance meeting with Santa Claus makes the trip more than worthwhile!

Freddy the Detective

There’s trouble on the Bean farm. First a toy train disappears. Then Prinny the Dog’s dinner is missing and Egbert the Rabbit is nowhere to be found. The animals of Bean Farm need a detective, and fast! Luckily, Freddy the Pig is on the case. Having just finished reading Sherlock Holmes, Freddy and his partner Mrs. Wiggins the Cow set up a detective agency in the barn. But when Freddy’s best friend Jinx the Cat is framed for a dastardly deed, all of Freddy’s detecting skills are put to the test.

The Story of Freginald

The Story of Freginald is a delightful and exciting tale about Freginald, a young bear who joins Mr. Boomschmidt’s circus. His extraordinary adventures with other animals including Leo the lion and Freddy the pig involve a stirring battle, a weird mystery successfully solved by careful deduction, and some very comical misunderstandings between the bear and an elephant, and between a lion and a mouse. Fans and initiates, alike, will rejoice! Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.

The Clockwork Twin

Adults, children, and reviewers have embraced the stouthearted Freddy the Pig since he and his Bean Farm chums first appeared in 1927. The Overlook reissues of this classic series with more than 150,000 hardcover copies sold have brought these timeless adventures to a whole new generation eager for a good time and a good laugh. As a recent USA Today feature about the Freddy phenomenon noted, the Freddy books brilliantly illustrate the cardinal virtues: ‘fair play and a good sense of humor.’ In The Clockwork Twin, Freddy reprises his most famous role as detective! and Walter Brooks’s talking animals rollick through amazing adventures. They talk, dance, sing, joke, and work out intricate problems. When a mechanical double is rigged up by Mr. Bean’s brother, Uncle Ben who is an eccentric inventor, as a friend and playmate for the Beans’ adopted boy, Adoniram, a comedy of errors ensues. The Bean Farm animals then decide to look for Adoniram’s real life brother it’s a job for Freddy the detective. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.

Freddy the Politician

It all started in 1927 when a group of animals on a farm in Upstate New York decided to travel to Florida in search of warmer weather and faithful fans of the Freddy books have been joyously lapping up each book in the twenty six book series ever since! Why is Freddy such a popular pig? Most readers will tell you it’s because he’s a pig for all seasons a detective, a pilot, a magician, an explorer, a poet, a politician…
you name it, and Freddy will give it a shot!Freddy the Politician comes just in time for the upcoming presidential election. Political unrest has descended upon Bean Farm. Amidst cries and whimpers for the establishment of the First Animal Republic, a crafty woodpeck*er erects his very own dictatorship, and Freddy is forced to fight for democracy in his own barnyard!

Freddy’s Cousin Weedly

Adults, children, and reviewers have embraced the stouthearted Freddy the Pig since he and his Bean Farm chums first appeared in 1927. The Overlook reissues of this classic series with almost 150,000 hardcover copies sold have brought these timeless adventures to a whole new generation eager for a good time and a good laugh. As a recent USA Today feature about the Freddy phenomenon noted, the Freddy books brilliantly illustrate the cardinal virtues: ‘fair play and a good sense of humor.’ In Freddy’s Cousin Weedly, the irrepressible Freddy’s cousin comes to Bean Farm, and what a timid soul he turns out to be. Jinx, the cat, decides to take charge of him, so as to help him get over his shyness and poor Weedly doesn’t know what exciting events are about to occur. Does Weedly change? And what happens when Mr. and Mrs. Snedeker come to visit? Do they get what they came for?

Freddy and the Ignormus

The trouble starts with the rumors about a strange creature called an Ignormus living in the Big Woods. Then the First Animal Bank is robbed and the rabbits and squirrels begin receiving letters demanding payment or the Ignormus will eat them up. With the animals too scared to do anything, it’s up to Freddy the Pig to save the day, with a little help from his friends. But will they be able to stop the Ignormus in time? And what or who is the Ignormus, anyway? ‘Welcome back, Freddy, you paragon of porkers!’ The Washington Post Book World

Freddy and the Perilous Adventure

The Fourth of July is no day for danger but that’s just what’s in store for the Bean Farm gang in Freddy and the Perilous Adventure. It all seemed so strange and exciting at first: Emma and Alice, Bean Farm’s favorite ducks, and the intrepid Freddy, off for a glorious balloon ride to celebrate the nation’s birthday. Of course, if Freddy and Emma and Alice and the other denizens of Bean Farm had known what was really in store for the brave aerialists in the Balloon Ascension they might just as well have remained quietly at home, listening to Freddy’s poetry or to the boastful crowing of Charles.

Freddy and the Bean Home News

It all started in 1927 when a group of animals on a farm in Upstate New York decided to travel to Florida in search of warmer weather and faithful fans of the Freddy books have been joyously lapping up each book in the twenty six book series ever since! Why is Freddy such a popular pig? Most readers will tell you it’s because he’s a pig for all seasons a detective, a pilot, a magician, an explorer, a poet, a politician…
you name it, and Freddy will give it a shot!In Freddy and the Bean Home News, Freddy’s friend Mr. Dimsey, the editor of the Guardian, is ousted for publishing news of Bean Farm in the local newspaper. To ensure that those who are interested might still learn of all the goings on, Freddy takes it upon himself to found a newspaper of his own and calls it The Bean Home News, the basis for the current Freddy fan club newsletter. It turns out that being a newspaperman isn’t quite as easy as Freddy thought it might be, but with typical aplomb he manages to burn the wires!

Freddy and Mr. Camphor

The Freddy the Pig books have long been considered classics of American children’s literature and with each reissue by The Overlook Press, this wonderful pig is charming his way into the hearts of more and more readers, adults and children alike. Freddy’s Bean Farm is a frolicking place and Freddy whether he’s a pilot, cowboy, explorer, politician, or detective will always save the day and be sure to have fun doing it. In Freddy and Mr. Camphor Freddy is positively worn out from his job as President of the First Animal Bank and as if this wasn’t enough responsibility for one pig! his position as Editor of the Bean Home News. At the urging of the farm animals, Freddy answers an ad in the Bean Home News for a position as caretaker of a large estate for the duration of the summer. Freddy is a bit overwhelmed when what was meant to be a relaxing little respite from the world turns out to be a real challenge…
but the pig will muddle through! ‘They are the American version of the great English classics, such as the Pooh books or The Wind in the Willows.’ The New York Times Book Review’There’s a richness to the world of Bean Farm and a strong moral code that is timeless…
‘ Los Angeles Times’Freddy is simply one of the greatest characters in children’s literature!’ School Library Journal

Freddy and the Popinjay

After Freddy, a perceptive and poetic pig, helps a nearsighted Robin get glas*ses and aids in planning an important wedding, he and the other Bean farm animals try to change a slingshot wielding boy into a friend.

Freddy the Pied Piper

Everyone’s favorite pig finds himself center ring in his latest adventure, Freddy the Pied Piper. Freddy’s friends knew that they could always rely on him to help them out of a jam, and when Mr. Boomschmidt and his traveling circus run into trouble, Jerry the rhinoceros turns to upstanding Freddy for some practical advice. In an instant the ever resourceful Freddy swings into action, and quick as you know, plans are made, funds raised, and scattered circus animals found. Freddy does it again, in one of his most memorable and enjoyable adventures.

Freddy the Magician

In Freddy the Magician, Freddy, who has won so many admirers in his roles of detective, pied piper, editor, general advisor to the animals on the Bean Farm, and always poet, will fascinate his readers in his role of magician. With the help of Jinx, the cat, and Jinx’s sister, Minx, as well as many other well known animals on the Bean Farm, Freddy pulls some wonderful tricks, not the least of which is outwitting the fraudulent magician who comes to entertain the unsuspecting inhabitants of the nearby town of Centerboro.

Freddy Goes Camping

Freddy the Pig is going undercover. When Mr. Camphor tells Freddy about an abandoned summer hotel and the unfriendly ghosts that live there, Freddy smells a rat Simon the rat. Determined to find out just what his old enemy is up to, Freddy needs the perfect cover up: camping! So Freddy packs up the sleeping bags, tents, and frying pans and heads out to the woods to expose Simon’s scheme. But when the evil Mr. Eha starts skulking about, Freddy and his pals know that they’ll have to do some serious detecting to get to the bottom of the mystery. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.

Freddy Plays Football

When the Centerboro High School football coach mistakes Freddy for a player and sends him out on the field, not even the school board can find anything in the rule book about keeping pigs from playing football as long as they go to school. While Freddy’s going to class, trouble’s brewing on the Bean farm. Mrs. Bean’s long lost brother, Aaron Doty, has returned home to claim his inheritance an inheritance that will bankrupt the farm. Freddy will need all the help he can get from his partners in detecting, Jinx the cat and Mrs. Wiggins the cow, if he’s going to find out what Doty’s really up to, pass Arithmetic, and still make it to the big game. ‘Welcome back, Freddy, you paragon of porkers!’ The Washington Post Book World

Freddy the Cowboy

Adults, children, and reviewers have embraced the stouthearted Freddy the Pig since he and his Bean Farm chums first appeared in 1927, and the Overlook reissues of this classic series with almost 150,000 hardcover copies sold have brought these timeless adventures to an entirely new generation eager for a good time and a good laugh. As a recent USA Today feature about the Freddy phenomenon noted, the Freddy books brilliantly illustrate the cardinal virtues: ‘fair play and a good sense of humor.’ In Freddy the Cowboy, Freddy buys a pony, learns to ride, and winds up in a tussle with the rascaliest varmint in Centerboro. It seems Mr. Flint, owner of the dude ranch, is plotting to rob the First Animal Bank where the animals keep their valuables. And from there on in Freddy and Flint develop a mutual dislike for one another so much so that Flint lets it be known he will shoot Freddy on sight! With the aid of a brave mouse, the Horrible Ten, and the Bean Farm gang not to mention Cy, his trusty mount Freddy shoots it out with Flint in the aisles of the cosmetics department of the Busy Bee. The Wild West was never like this!

Freddy Rides Again

Adults, children, and reviewers are falling in love again with Walter Brooks’s talking pig and his barnyard friends who live on Bean Farm in upstate New York. The Freddy the Pig books have long been considered classics of American children’s literature and with each reissue by The Overlook Press, this wonderful pig is charming his way into the hearts of more and more readers. Freddy’s Bean Farm is a frolicking place and Freddy whether he’s a pilot, cowboy, explorer, politician, or detective will always save the day and be sure to have fun doing it. In Freddy Rides Again, Freddy the porcine idol of people everywhere who love to laugh gets it all started when he mixes it up with Mr. Elihu P. Margarine, a wealthy foxhunter who does not care a fig for the damaged vegetables he and his hunters leave in their wake. In the background, Henrietta the rooster chastises her husband Charles, ‘A fine mess you’ve got yourself into! You know where you’ll end up, don’t you? On a platter with a lot of dumplings, that’s where!’ With the help of Cy, the steed who taught Freddy to ride, Freddy rids the countryside of several menaces, including a rattlesnake and Elihu Margarine making even Henrietta happy. It all makes for a stirring saga of a remarkably colorful pig and his steadfast barnyard compatriots.

Freddy the Pilot

Freddy the Pig, famous detective of Bean Farm, has his hands full. The comic book tycoon and evil mastermind Watson P. Condiment is trying to kidnap Mademoiselle Rose, the prize performer from Mr. Boomschmidt’s circus. Freddy goes to great heights in his brand new airplane to foil Condiment’s flying henchmen and save Mr. Boomschmidt from financial ruin. But will he be able to come to the rescue without crashing into the north fence? The Freddy books are ‘the American version of the great English classics, such as the Pooh books or The Wind in the Willows.’ The New York Times Book Review

Freddy and the Space Ship

The North Pole was certainly an experience but what about deep space? In Freddy and the Space Ship, Mrs. Peppercorn, Benjamin Bean, Jinx the cat, Charles the rooster, and Freddy take off for Mars in Benjamin Bean’s fabulous space ship. The journey takes an unexpected turn when Mrs. Peppercorn fiddles with the controls and the party is knocked off course only to land in a stranger place than they could ever have imagined!

The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig

They are back in print the verse stylings of Freddy the Pig. He’s been a detective, pilot, cowboy, adventurer, and more. Why not a poet? Of all pigs he’s the pink of perfection Of all pigs he’s the pearl beyond price; Though by no means the biggest Of all pigs he’s the piggest, And that will go everywhere twice. The weather, all animals with special emphasis on the attributes of pigs, joy and sorrow, the utility of facial features, and a world of other subjects are poetically worked over by the world’s most distinguished pig of letters, Freddy. Whether he is happy or sad, Freddy is ever the poet, his verse both heavy and light having created an international fuss among less gifted pigs and poets. It is all hearty good fun, and most of it rhymes. If Freddy’s poetry seems a bit hammy in spots, well, that is to be expected.

Freddy and the Men from Mars

In Freddy and the Men from Mars, the trouble starts when a newspaper reports that six little creatures, believed to be the only Martians ever to have visited Earth, have been captured single handedly by Mr. Herbert Garble. This news wouldn’t have disturbed Freddy and the other barn animals had not the paper further stated that their friend Mr. Boomschmidt had invited Mr. G. and his men from Mars to join Boomschmidt’s Stupendous and Unexcelled Circus. Freddy, ever ready to maintain his reputation as a detective, immediately suspects a hoax, and quickly sets out to expose it. How he manages to do so, with the help of Jinx, the Horrible Ten, and several other familiar allies and a band of real Martians who turn up just in the nick of time makes for one of the most hilarious of all the Freddy tales, a story that is simply out of this world! ‘Freddy is simply one of the greatest characters in children’s literature!’ School Library Journal

Freddy and Simon the Dictator

Warnings had been printed in the Bean Home News and the Centerboro Guardian, but nobody paid much attention to them. An animal revolt? ‘Preposterous!’ said the Beans and all the other humans. But it’s true and the outrages begin: cars are stopped and overturned all over the county, farmers starting out to do their morning chores are driven back into the house, and the cows refuse to come in at milking time. In Centerboro, cats are insolent to their mistresses and horses go out of their way to insult people on the street. Simon the rat is determined to turn the farm into a dictatorship and Mr. Camphor has been persuaded much against his better judgment to run for governor of New York State. Herb Garble shows up, Jinx defects to the enemy or does he?, and Freddy that inimitable pig! goes to work as the political boss of Otesaraga County. Freddy and Simon the Dictator is classic Brooks, in which the master of barnyard hilarity has a lot of fun satirizing politics and especially politicians. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.

Freddy and the Dragon

The Freddy the Pig books have long been considered classics of American children’s literature and with each reissue by The Overlook Press, this wonderful pig is charming his way into the hearts of more and more readers, adults and children alike. Freddy’s Bean Farm is a frolicking place and Freddy whether he’s a pilot, cowboy, explorer, politician, or detective will always save the day and be sure to have fun doing it. In Freddy and the Dragon Freddy and friends return from a riding trip through New England only to be met with a rather cool reception from the citizens of Centerboro. Freddy isn’t too concerned about it until he receives a message in the middle of the night from his old client and friend Mrs. Peppercorn. Terrible things have been going on gardens raided, bicycles stolen, houses broken into, and even more alarming, threatening notes demanding protection money! When Freddy with the help of Uncle Ben, the farm animals and their very own Dragon face the crime wave head on the culprits are sure to get their just rewards. ‘They are the American version of the great English classics, such as the Pooh books or The Wind in the Willows.’ The New York Times Book Review’There’s a richness to the world of Bean Farm and a strong moral code that is timeless…
‘ Los Angeles Times’Freddy is simply one of the greatest characters in children’s literature!’ School Library Journal

Art of Freddy

The year 2002 marks the seventy fifth anniversary of the first appearance of Freddy the Pig that illustrious barnyard character called ‘that charming ingenious pig’ by The New York Times. Walter Brooks’s Freddy the Pig first appeared in print in 1927, in To and Again later published as Freddy Goes to Florida. Devotees and acclaim soon followed, as did the winning relationship between Brooks and illustrator Kurt Wiese. The result was twenty six Freddy books in all, each accompanied by Wiese’s vibrant and comic illustrations. As Brooks once said, ‘Kurt Wiese draws such very sympathetic pigs!’ Celebrating the seventy fifth anniversary is this delightful volume of Kurt Wiese’s illustrations, capturing the incomparable Freddy in his many guises as detective, poet, banker, and pilot, just to name a few! Here, too, are Freddy’s adventures and misadventures, his human and barnyard friends and foes. Together with choice bits of Brooks’s text, Kurt Wiese’s illustrations capture the rollicking humor and dramatic spirit of Freddy’s world. Included, too, are several exciting original Freddy illustrations never before in print from the collection of Lee Secrest, former president of Friends of Freddy, and keeper of the Freddy archives. An introduction by Michael Cart, one of the foremost authorities on all things Freddy puts Kurt Wiese’s life and art into context with Freddy and his creator, Walter Brooks.

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