The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig - Softcover

Brooks, Walter R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1468310739 ISBN 13: 9781468310733

Publisher: The Overlook Press, 2015

Synopsis

The weather, all animals (with special emphasis on the peculiar 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―the Bard of Bean Farm.Whether he's happy or sad Freddy is ever the poet, and his verse―both heavy and light―has created an international fuss among the less gifted pigs and poets. And if Freddy's poetry seems a bit hammy in spots, well...

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.

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

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: The Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1468310739
• ISBN 13: 9781468310733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Illustrator: Wiese Kurt