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    Freddy Goes to the North Pole
    Freddy Goes to the North Pole
    Freddy Goes to the North Pole
    Audiobook5 hours

    Freddy Goes to the North Pole

    Written by Walter R. Brooks

    Narrated by John McDonough

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    Freddy is certainly an extraordinary pig by all accounts. Although he spends his time oversleeping and overeating just like a normal pig, he also finds the time to daydream, enterprise, and even write poetry! Always full of new ideas, he proposes that the animals of Bean Farm start a tour company. Promoting himself to president of Barnyard Tours, Inc., Freddy arranges an expedition to the frigid Arctic. Freddy, Jinx the cat, Eeny the mouse, Robert the dog, Charles the Rooster and a host of other animals travel all the way to the North Pole. Unfortunately, their plans freeze as they encounter a pack of polar problems--but at least they get to visit Santa Claus! Between 1926 and 1958, Walter R. Brooks wrote 26 books on the adventures of Freddy the Pig. Considered to be one of the greatest characters in American children's literature, Freddy still enjoys enormous popularity today, and his timeless tales are considered to be the American equivalents of the Pooh stories.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 25, 2009
    ISBN9781440775857
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    Walter R. Brooks

    Walter R. Brooks (1886-1958) is the beloved author of 26 books about Freddy the Pig. He edited for magazines, including The New Yorker. In addition to the Freddy books, Brooks created the character Mr. Ed the Talking Horse.

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    • 5/5
      I love Freddy books so much please make more and thank you for your time.?
    • 4/5
      Freddy the Pig and a few of his barnyard friends go on trip to the North Pole, but Ferdinand the crow brings back word to the Bean Farm that the group was taken in by a stranded group of sailors, who may have ill intent towards the animals. So a rescue party is formed with those animals who hadn't originally gone to the North Pole, and they set off. Eventually, with assorted small adventures along the way, the rescue party arrives to find their animal friends, and the suspect sailors, all in the good hands of Santa Claus. They all hang out with Saint Nick in his palace for a while before eventually being taken back home to the Bean's in Santa's sleigh.Preposterous, but fun story, with some genuinely hilarious moments. Great story to read to young children, or to enjoy as an adult if you're capable of suspending every shred of realistic logic from your brain.
    • 5/5
      North Pole is one of my favorite Freddy books. Walter R. Brooks wrote 26 of them, and they are all amusing and original. His imagination really takes off when he describes life at the North Pole with Santa Claus and, as always, there is an ironic adult undertone when he talks about the sailors and their "appreciation" of Freddy's plumpness! North Pole also features Barnyard Tours, Inc., the first of many Freddy business ventures. Others of note include the First Animal Bank, the Bean Home News and, of course, Freddy's work as a detective. It's a fun, seasonal read.
    • 5/5
      Originally "More to and again" as a sequel to To and Again -- this time the animals go to the North Pole, and the story is more frankly fantasy, as the North Pole is the home of Santa Claus, and they have a jolly time with him. --I still recall Freddy's song about the pole "O Pole, O Pole, a glorious Pole, to you I sing this song/ Where bedtime comes but once as year/ Since the nights are six months long..."He comes back with them and has a hilarious encounter with a traffic cop and a judge, but gets off by telling the judge what he brought him for Christmas long ago. (The scene is a little like the trial scene in The Voyages of Dr, Dolittle).
    • 3/5
      This is the second Freddy book. I can see why this one wasn't in my public library when I was a child. Brooks didn't know what to do with his characters the second time out and the plot sags in the middle. That said, this is the book that explains why the animals can talk and it's referred to in some of the later books. So if I were still a kid, I'd want to read this book, even if it is a little clunky