Freddy the Detective
Author:
Walter R. Brooks
Content:
Freddy the Detective by Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator:
Kurt Wiese
Publication:
1932 by Alfred A. Knopf
Genre:
Adventure, Fiction, Mystery
Series:
Freddy the Pig
Series Number: 3
Pages:
263
Current state:
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A delightful detective story about the beloved animal characters on Mr. Bean's farm, whose adventures have entertained so many children. The pig, Freddy, stimulated by reading of Sherlock Holmes, sets up in business as a detective.
Beginning with the disappearance of the children's train of cars which the rats steal to ride safely back and forth from their holes to the feedbox, Freddy solves a series of very mysterious cases. All the animals become involved, there is a frame-up, and the climax is the great trial scene in the barn, where Freddy and Ferdinand the Crow are the opposing lawyers and Charles the Rooster, the judge.
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Walter R. Brooks
1886 - 1958American
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 o... See more
Kurt Wiese
1887-1974Born in Germany, Kurt Wiese lived for a while in Manchuria, where he mastered the Chinese language and calligraphy. Later, in Australia, h... See more
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Freddy the Detective
Reviewed by Edward Garboczi
Freddy the Detective is #3 in the series and is the volume reviewed here. Freddy gets the idea that he wants to be a detective and opens his own agency on the farm, run out of his pigsty. He solves puzzles on the farm and gets involved with a bigger case involving real criminals and stolen money. The book is very funny and is cleverly written. The animal characters are wonderful, including a sarcastic cat, a slow but thoughtful cow, and conniving rats who are always plotting trouble. The reading age is probably 4th grade on up to adult (I like them, too). Most children like animals and like to laugh, so that Freddy the Detective, and hopefully more titles in the series in the future, would be ideal for their reading. The vocabulary is more sophisticated than one might think, so that the child reader will also learn new words as they read. All the Freddy books are great for reading aloud as a family, as the vocabulary, story, and humor can be appreciated at different levels.
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