Freddy Goes Camping ANNOTATION
While camping, Freddy the pig pursues a swindler who is trying to defraud Farmer Bean, Mr. Camphor, and Mrs. Filmore of their property.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
In Freddy Goes Camping, Mr. Camphor's aunts, Minerva and Elmira, were staying with him, much to his disgust. "There's two kinds of aunts," he said. "There's the regular kind, and then there's the other kind. Mine are the other kind." He enlists Freddy's aid in an attempt to rid his house of the ladies, with the result that Freddy and his chums become entangled with some extremely unfriendly ghosts in an abandoned summer hotel. Freddy camps out, goes canoeing, and tosses flapjacks like a pro when he's not mixing it up with the eerie Mr. Eha.
FROM THE CRITICS
Washington Post Book World
Welcome back, you paragon of porkers!
Children's Literature - Kathleen Karr
Walter R. Brooks (1886-1958) wrote 26 books starring Freddy the Pig. Thanks to the Friends of Freddy, his fan club, they are now being reprinted at last in facsimile editions complete with Kurt Wiese's wonderful illustrations. It should be a cause for much joy in upstate New York, the primary scene of the storiesﾽand in the rest of the universe as well! Four years after their last encounter in Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy meets the wealthy gentleman again. The invitation is for a camping trip, but it soon becomes clear that Mr. Camphor is under siege on several fronts: from his two sour spinster aunts, and from the mysterious Mr. Eha, who is trying to swindle property from the locals. Freddy puts on his poet cap to conquer Aunt Elmira, and his detective duds to get the goods on Eha. Brooks does love a good fight, and he includes an excellent one between Bean's animals and the nefarious Simon and his family of rats. Yet the revenge his characters take is always clever and benign. And he uses a doozyﾽsleep deprivationﾽto give Eha his final comeuppance. Brooks's books ought to be considered for use in anger management seminars. 2003 (orig. 1948), Puffin,
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