Adventure fiction. Freddy the Pig stars in two adventures. In the first, fresh from reading about Sherlock Holmes, Freddy is drafted to solve several disappearances on Bean farm. In the second, the porcine hero and his friends escape the drafty barn for a vacation in sunny Florida. 9 yrs+

Includes poems dealing primarily with farm life, and more specifically with the problems and pleasures of pigs.

Freddy the pig buys a horse and inadvertently makes an enemy of a vicious, unscrupulous cowboy with designs on the First Animals' Bank and on Freddy's life.

In Freddy and Simon the Dictator, warning had been printed in the Bean Home News and the Centerboro Guardian, but nobody paid much attention to them. An animal revolt? "Preposterous!" said the Beans and all the other humans. But it's true-and Simon the rat is determined to turn the farm into a dictatorship. Mr. Camphor has been persuaded (much against his better judgment) to run for governor of New York State, Herb Garble shows up, Jinx defects...

Freddy the Pig's sleuthing skills are put to the test by conniving rats and a band of animals masquerading as Martians.

While clever Freddy the pig tries to find out if Mrs. Bean's long-lost brother is really who he claims to be, he also attends high school so that he will be eligible to play in the big football game between Centerboro and Tushville.

The first three Freddy stories: First, Freddy and friends decide to escape the cold winter by vacationing in sunny Florida. Then, Freddy and his barnyard friends run the successful Barnyard Tours, Inc., but some sailors cause trouble for them and Santa on a trip to the North Pole. And finally, Freddy the pig does some detective work in order to solve the mystery of a missing toy train.