Freddy and the Bean Home News - Softcover

Brooks, Walter R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142300888 ISBN 13: 9780142300886

Publisher: Puffin Books, 2002

Synopsis

"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

When Freddy's friend Mr. Dimsey is ousted for publishing news of Bean Farm in the local newspaper, the animals decide to take action and publish the first animal newspaper The Bean Home News-with Freddy as editor-in-chief, of course! But everyone's favorite pig discovers that being a newspaperman isn't as easy as it looks!
 

About this title

About the Author:

Walter R. Brooks was an American writer best remembered for his short stories on Mister Ed the talking horse and children's books, particularly those about Freddy the Pig and other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the "Bean farm" in upstate New York.

Kurt Wiese illustrated over 400 books, nineteen of which he also wrote, before his death in 1974

Review:

"The American versions of the Pooh Books or The Wind in the Willows."
-The New York Times

"Freddy is blessed with courage, wit, agility and a Sherlock Holmes-like capacity for detective work."
-Newsday

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0142300888
• ISBN 13: 9780142300886
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Illustrator: Wiese Kurt