When I was just a little kid, my Mother told me her favorite book was “Freddy Goes to Florida”. I later found it in the library and read it. It was indeed a good book.
yes they had a whole bunch of Freddy books in the kids’ room of my library. Wikipedia on Brooks: “The first works Brooks published were poems and short stories. His short story “Ed Signs the Pledge” about a talking horse was the basis for the 1960s television comedy series Mister Ed (credit for creating the characters is given in each episode to “Walter Brooks”). His most enduring works, however, are the 26 books he wrote about Freddy the Pig and his friends. Boucher and McComas, for example, praised Freddy and the Spaceship, saying it “offers wit, sound structural plotting, genuine character-humor, and admirable English prose.””