Talking Animals and Others: The Life and Work of Walter R. Brooks, Creator of Freddy the Pig

By Michael Cart

Author and librarian Michael Cart (himself a lifelong fan of Freddy the Pig of Bean Farm) gracefully combines archival research, firsthand accounts from Brooks's personal files, and interviews with his second wife to present the first complete biography of the man behind the pig. Much of the series sprang from Brooks's idyllic childhood in turn-of-the-century upstate New York among a colorful cast of family and friends. Brooks spent his adult life writing iconoclastic columns and book reviews as well as original, often fantastical stories for numerous popular publications.

Talking Animals and Others is a long-awaited homage to the gentle genius of this great American author and to the pig who lives on in the hearts of devoted readers everywhere.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590201701
• ISBN13: 9781590201701
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.2"