FREDDY THE PILOT - Softcover

Walter R. Brooks

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394876032 ISBN 13: 9780394876030

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1986

Synopsis

Freddy the pig and his animal friends take to the air to save Mr. Boomschmidt's Stupendous and Unexcelled Circus from the evil schemes of Watson P. Condiment, the comic book tycoon.

About this title

About the Author

Walter R. Brooks (1886–1958) is the author of 26 books about Freddy the Pig. Born in upstate New York, he attended the University of Rochester before going on to work with the American Red Cross and editing for magazines, including The New Yorker. In addition to the Freddy books, Brooks created the character Mr. Ed the Talking Horse.

Kurt Wiese (1887–1974) illustrated over 300 children’s books and wrote and illustrated another 20 books. He received two Newbery Awards and two Caldecott Honor Book Awards.

From AudioFile

[Editor's note: The following is a combined review with FREDDY AND THE FLYING SAUCER and FREDDY AND THE BASEBALL TEAM.] -- These are but three of the twenty-six works Brooks wrote between 1926 and 1955 about the "Renaissance" pig Freddy. Hailing from the Bean farm near Centerboro, New York, Freddy spends most of his time being an amateur sleuth around the neighborhood. These are works our parents and grandparents may have read, and although such things as Postal Zones and the War Department have changed, the author's imaginative plots, settings, and characters are delightful. In these three works we find such things as: Martians (who are about only three feet tall), learning to play baseball and becoming a pitcher's worst nightmare, rabbits and skunks parachuting from a plane (piloted by Freddy) using umbrellas, skunks fighting with quarterstaffs, and Freddy fending off foreign agents trying to steal flying saucer plans. McDonough's reading is sublime. Poised and confident, he reads these works at an even pace, bringing all the characters to life with his versatile and capable voice. Refreshingly fun and imaginative, these works are made especially so by McDonough's narrative skill. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394876032
• ISBN 13: 9780394876030
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Kurt Wiese
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 247