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A robin with poor eyesight has mistaken Freddy the pig's tail for a worm. Putting aside the poem he is writing, Freddy decides to help the poor bird solve his problem. But the solution just seems to lead to bigger problems. For over half a century, the Freddy books have delighted generations of children.Tags
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I didn't read these as a child, but I was raised with expectations, values, and perspectives similar enough that they feel like comfort reads.
For example, Zenas Witherspoon, the miser, needs to learn to at least buy his son clothing decent for school and his wife clothing decent enough to visit friends.
And the fine-feathered birds need to learn not to be swelled-headed popinjays.
And Freddy needs to learn not to take himself too seriously as a poet, and seriously enough as a pig. "And it is perfectly true that if you don't take yourself seriously, nobody else will. It's hard to know jut where to draw the line."
For example, Zenas Witherspoon, the miser, needs to learn to at least buy his son clothing decent for school and his wife clothing decent enough to visit friends.
And the fine-feathered birds need to learn not to be swelled-headed popinjays.
And Freddy needs to learn not to take himself too seriously as a poet, and seriously enough as a pig. "And it is perfectly true that if you don't take yourself seriously, nobody else will. It's hard to know jut where to draw the line."
The plot of this one is more episodic than most of them, and not all the subplots fit neatly together. However, the animals learn an important lesson about making friends of former enemies. I enjoyed it.
Freddy arranges for a nearsighted robin to get glasses; he also engages in jousting
Have Knopf, 1945, pp. 244
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Walter R. Brooks was born on January 9, 1886 in Rome, New York. He attended the Mohegan Lake Military Academy from 1902 to 1904 and the University of Rochester from 1904 to 1906. In 1906 he went to New York City to study homeopathic medicine at the Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital. He dropped out of medical school at the end of show more 1908. He found employment with an advertising agency, and then temporarily retired in 1911 after receiving a considerable inheritance. In 1917, he went to work for the American Red Cross and later did editorial work for several magazines, including The New Yorker. In 1915, his first work, a sonnet titled Haunted, was published in the Century magazine. He is best remembered for his short stories and children's books. His first short story for adults, Harden's Chance, appeared in the Forum magazine for December 1915. Altogether he published more than 180 stories. His short story, Ed Signs the Pledge, about a talking horse was the basis for the 1960s television comedy series Mister Ed. He published one novel for adults, Ernestine Takes Over and a guidebook, New York: An Intimate Guide. The first Freddy the Pig book, To and Again, was published in 1927. He wrote 25 more books wrote about Freddy the Pig and his friends. He died on August 17, 1958. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Freddy and the Popinjay
- Original publication date
- 1945
- People/Characters
- Freddy the Pig
- Important places
- Centerboro, New York, USA
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- Fiction and Literature, Kids, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PZ7 .B7994 .F — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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