Walter R Brooks

"Mr. Pope had rigged up a reading light . . . and the horse read far into the night."

- From Ed Has His Mind Improved by Walter R. Brooks

A boon for booklovers, this set features funny, fantastical and poignant stories about people with unique and passionate connections to the written word.

Walter R. Brooks' Ed Has His Mind Improved

read by Tony Roberts

How Ed-a talking horse-became a voracious reader of adventure tales and hardboiled

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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+

Freddy the pig and his barnyard friends run the very successful Barnyard Tours, Inc., but on a trip to the North Pole some sailors cause trouble for them and Santa, who, when the animals drive off the bad men, offers a sleigh ride home.

Freginald the bear joins Mr. Bloomschmidt's circus.

When Centerboro seems to be overwhelmed by a crime wave, Freddie determines to catch the culprits with the help of Uncle Ben, the farm animals, and a special Dragon.

Freddy organizes a Martian baseball team for Mr. Boorschmidt's circus.

When the Bean farm animals form the First Animal Republic, Freddy the pig fights for justice and fair government against plotting rats and woodpeckers.

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 and his animal friends take to the air to save Mr. Boomschmidt's Stupendous and Unexcelled Circus from the evil schemes of Watson P. Condiment, the comic book tycoon.

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