Freddy and the Baseball Team from Mars (Freddy the Pig) - Hardcover

Brooks, Walter R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879519428 ISBN 13: 9780879519421

Publisher: Amulet Books, 1999

Synopsis

Mr. Boorschmidt's circus arrives in Centerboro with a new attraction, six real Martians, but to make sure customers get their money's worth he asks Freddy the pig to organize them into a baseball team

About this title

About the Author:

Walter R. Brooks was born in Rome, New York on January 9, 1886, and died in Roxbury, New York on August 17, 1958. Brooks attended the University of Rochester and, after graduation, worked for the American Red Cross and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He became associate editor of Outlook in 1928 and subsequently was a staff writer for several magazines, including The New Yorker. The short stories he began writing at this time were published in The Saturday Evening Post, Atlantic Monthly, and Esquire. Brooks's short story "Ed Takes the Pledge" was the basis for the 1950s television series Mr. Ed, but his most lasting achievement is the Freddy the Pig series, which began in 1928 with To and Again (Freddy Goes to Florida). He subsequently wrote twenty-five more delightful books starring "that charming ingenious pig" (The New York Times), all of which are now available from The Overlook Press.

Review:

“Funny, beautifully written gems.”
- Nicholas Kristof, 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: Amulet Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0879519428
• ISBN 13: 9780879519421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 256
• Illustrator: Wiese Kurt