He was a founder of Friends of Freddy, an association for the appreciation of the Freddy the Pig series of books of Walter Brooks.
Adam Hochschild, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels (Syracuse University Press, 1997), "Paragon of Porkers: Freddy the Pig," pp.
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Adam Hochschild, writing in The New York Times Book Review, describes the series as "the moral center of my childhood universe."
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Although the animals and humans do not age, the stories reflect the social conditions at the time of writing, for example, the books published during World War II have scrap drives and victory gardens.
Walter Rollin Brooks (January 9, 1886 – August 17, 1958) was an American writer best remembered for his short stories and children's books, particularly those about Freddy the Pig and other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the "Bean farm" in upstate New York.
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Since Brooks himself had died by the time production began on the show, as of early November of 2013, it was not known whether his estate collected royalties from its production.) His most enduring works, however, are the 26 books he wrote about Freddy the Pig and his friends.
Porky Pig | Pig | pig | Freddy Fender | Fab Five Freddy | Freddy vs. Jason | domestic pig | Peppa Pig | Fat Freddy's Drop | Daddy Freddy | Chi-Pig | Pig War | Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey | Freddy the Pig | Freddy's Nightmares | Freddy Curci | Domestic pig | Wibbly Pig | The Pig and Whistle | The Enchanted Pig | Guinea Pig Club | Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare | Freddy Martin | Freddy Maertens | Freddy Heineken | Freddy García | Babe: Pig in the City | A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge | the ''Guinea Pig'' series | Pig-tailed Macaque |
The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig (1953) is the brief 21st book in the humorous children's series Freddy the Pig written by American author Walter R. Brooks and illustrated by Kurt Wiese.