Freddy the Detective

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Summary: "MUST READ"
Review: I got this book for Christmas and this book looked like it would be to long because I have read a ton of The Boxcar Children books but I just loved this book! I got three of the books from my parents. In this book Freddy becomes a dective, like Sherlock Holmes and with the help from his friends he solves cases, builds a "prison" for guilty animals. Charles the rooster is named judge. The twelve chapters and 264 pages are extremely interesting! I found out that this book wasn't as long as it looked. This is an interesting book. "MUST READ!"

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Summary: Freddy Rocks!
Review: I loved Freddy the detective. It shows his ups and downs of being a detective. No matter what though Freddy is never ready to give up! This book is great for littler kids because they can understand it, but older kids will enjoy it as well! Freddy will brighten your heart with his delighting tales of being a detective on Bean Farm!

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Summary: My Favorite Children's Book Series
Review: I was so happy to see these books back in print, that I had to buy this one, which is one of the best in the series. When I was first learning to read, I came upon these in my grammar school library and read all of them, over and over.
Any parent should be happy to see these back on the shelves. They're clever, cute and, for lack of a better word, just plain sweet. Reading them now really takes me back. Buy them for your children, and you might find yourself sneaking a read of them too.

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Summary: Freddy books are many things, but most of all they are FUN!!
Review: Like the other reviewers here, I grew up on Freddy books more decades ago than I care to remember. They were always entertaining, they were frequently exciting, and most of the time they were not only funny, they were thigh-slappingly, guffaw-inducingly hilarious. In fact, they were so amusing that I was unaware at the time that I was getting lessons on kindness, responsibility and all of the values that many authorities are now saying that we as a nation lack. In spite of a few stereotypes (the Irish cop with a thick brogue, etc.) and a few situations that show the Freddy books were supposed to take place in a less complicated time, I have found that when read aloud to today's generation, the books are as appreciated by them as by me and my contemporaries. I had the pleasure of reading them to my two children (until they took them away from me and read the books themselves) and my grandchildren (ditto). Freddy the Detective is one of the best Freddy books in setting the scene of the Bean farm, delineating the characters, and showing how much funnier these animals are than Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, and all the other cartoon characters on television. Not all of the many Freddy books are as outstanding as Freddy the Detective, Freddy the Politican, Freddy the Magician, and Freddy Goes Camping, but they still beat a lot of the children's books that are out there today.

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Summary: Understanding Freddy
Review: Many rears ago the local library was too far to walk to so a book buss would bring them to our school. I milled offer the shelves and found a series of intriguing stories. It was the Freddy the pig series. I enjoyed many hours reading about Freddy's adventures with his pal Jinx. Then for years he just disappeared from view. No one ever heard of him. I combed the used bookstores and still no one heard of him. Then one day he returned. Today I am rediscovering Freddy. Not only are there new adventures but the originals ar being republished.
This is the best book to start with; it explains how Freddy became a detective, which he uses, in subsequent adventures. After reading a book on Sherlock Holmes he decides he can be a pretty good detective and recruits friends in the process.
The stories are intriguing in them selves. However underlying the story are several real life concepts for one to work out as what's the matter with going to jail if you get fed and do not have to work? What do you do when the judge has already made up his mind befor the trial? I especially like the way he browbeats the pore little rabbit during his interrogation. One forgets how intimidating it could be.
Well you will enjou this story as freddy must fingure out what happened to a childs toy train and what diabolical plot it is used in.

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Summary: Freddy is back!
Review: Oh my god! Freddy is back! I haven't seen Freddy and his pals on the Bean farm for three decades, but I and my school friends literally lived off of the delightful series. Sherlock Holmes meets Doctor Dolittle meets Clyde Beatty meets Dorthy Parker meets Nick and Nora Charles. Mystery, adventure, travel, humor, philosophy, wit, relationships, courage, duty, loyalty, persistence, valor, loads of imagination and fun, fun, fun! Enjoy! -- Robert Boyle

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Summary: Fast-moving creative children's fare
Review: The "Freddy" series is an overlooked gem in the history of adolescent fiction. The plots are interesting, the characters real and the dialog inspired and creative. Highly recommended for kids ages 8 and up.

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Summary: Teaches values, loyalty, friendship, acceptance of people's
Review: The Freddy books teach children and adults the value of persistence, friendships, loyalty and the acceptance of the foibles, strengths and weaknesses of others. There is a wonderfully colorful cast of talking farm animals, a farmer's wife, who talks to them, and the farmer, who doesn't believe animals should talk, so doesn't aknowledge that they do. There is team work and scheming and success built on cooperation. I sincerely wish these books could again be published in paperback.

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Summary: Walter Brooks had a genius for character, even animal.
Review: The Freddy the Pig adventures are almost unique in children's literature. Few series, whether for children or adults are so full of the sense of community, and the character's place in that community than the Freddy books are. I've just reread six of them (two aloud) with my children. I'm amazed to find that you can read this series, end to end, in much the same way that you would read Trollope's Barchester novels, or Anthony Powell's Dance---as life caught in microcosm, studied, and loved and laughed at, and to hell with the fact that these are animals. I step off the subway each day and enter an office that is remarkably like Freddy's world, except we have few adventures. These are great books and I hope the publisher will find a ready audience for them.

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Summary: Always Gets His Animal
Review: You are going to love finding out who killed the crow, who stole the model train, and how Freddy rids the barn of those nasty rats. And Freddy makes us fee pity for those who need to be sent to jail. Whether assembling clues, shadowing the suspicious, or selecting a judge, Freddy is the right pig for the job. And you'll hardly recognize our old friend in his disguises.