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When the circus falls on hard times, Freddy concocts a plan to raise money by driving out the mice in a nearby village. However, he must also contend with angry farm mice, kidnapping, and a dangerous trek to Virginia. After all his hard work, Mr. Broomschmidt, the circus owner, refuses to accept any charity, and Freddy must find some other way to save his beloved circus. In Freddy the Pied Piper, Walter Brooks has told yet another rollicking, humorous adventure tale with wonderful show more illustrations by the inimitable Kurt Wiese. show lessTags
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Glosses over the problems with some circuses; we met this owner and the animals in previous books and we know they are really a happy family.
Love how Jinx the cat is friendly with mice and helps to figure out a way to keep them out of people's homes (and Mr. Weezer's bank) when Freddy's first and second suggestions proved ineffective. (And love that Freddy was "pig-headed" enough to keep working for a better fix.)
In this one Alice & Emma have a suitor, and a rhinoceros runs a race, and they make friends with Phil the buzzard... and, again, Freddy's disguises work unbelievably well.
Worth reading if you're already a fan, but probably skippable if you're only reading a few.
" you know, if we knew everything beforehand, things wouldn't be show more much fun, would they?" show less
Love how Jinx the cat is friendly with mice and helps to figure out a way to keep them out of people's homes (and Mr. Weezer's bank) when Freddy's first and second suggestions proved ineffective. (And love that Freddy was "pig-headed" enough to keep working for a better fix.)
In this one Alice & Emma have a suitor, and a rhinoceros runs a race, and they make friends with Phil the buzzard... and, again, Freddy's disguises work unbelievably well.
Worth reading if you're already a fan, but probably skippable if you're only reading a few.
" you know, if we knew everything beforehand, things wouldn't be show more much fun, would they?" show less
Freddy the pig is asked to come up with ideas to save Mr. Boomschmidt's circus, and his ideas include becoming the pied piper. For some reason what I remember from reading this about 50 years ago is Freddy's poem in honor of Jerry the Rhinoceros, who brings the plea for Freddy's help to the upstate New York farm where he lives during a very cold February. "You've come all this way in the vey worst weather/ For it couldn't be colder in Nome/ And we surely admire you for that."
Lions, snow drifts and mice, oh my. In the middle of one of coldest winters in the history of Central New York, Freddy tries to help out Mr. Boomschmidt's circus while dealing with a plague of mice in Centerboro. As usual everyone works together to get things to come out right.
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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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- 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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