Freddy and the Bean Home News

By Walter R. Brooks, Kurt Wiese (illustrator),

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Freddy the multitalented pig publishes a newspaper for the animals on Bean Farm.

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1 author picked Freddy and the Bean Home News as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is the tenth in a charming series of children’s books about Freddy the Pig and the other talking animals on the Bean farm that began in the early 20th century, two decades before Orwell’s Animal Farm.

Freddy has been called a renaissance pig—a detective, poet, pilot, newspaper editor, and much more. 

In this story, the rapacious owner of the local newspaper employs various underhanded tactics to shut down the rival paper edited by Freddy. The scheme is thwarted when Freddy’s lawyer, Old Whibley the owl, convinces a judge that the would-be monopolist engaged in “kidnapping, theft, and conspiracy…

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