ART OF FREDDY, THE

Brooks, Walter R.

ISBN 10: 1585673153 / ISBN 13: 9781585673155

Published by Overlook Press, 2002

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192pp Ilus Edited & with an introduction by Michael Cart.

Seller Inventory # 31830

Bibliographic Details

• Title: ART OF FREDDY, THE
• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585673153
• ISBN 13: 9781585673155
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Wiese, Kurt
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Walter Brooks's Freddy the Pig first appeared in print in 1927, in To andAgain (later published as Freddy Goes to Florida). Devotees and acclaimsoon 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.

About the Author

Walter R. Brooks (1886-1958) was born in Rome, New York. He worked for several magazines including The New Yorker and his short stories were published in the Saturday Evening Post, the Atlantic Monthly, and Esquire ."Ed Takes the Pledge" was the basis for the 1960s television series, Mr. Ed but Brooks s most lasting achievement is the Freddy the Pig series, which began in 1927 with To and Again (Freddy Goes to Florida). He subsequently wrote twenty-five more delightful books starring Freddy, "that charming, ingenious pig" (The New York Times).