{"product_id":"art-of-freddy-9781585673155","title":"Art of Freddy","description":"\u003cp\u003eWalter Brookss Freddy the Pig first appeared in print in 1927  in To andAgain (later published as Freddy Goes to Florida). Devotees and acclaimsoon followed  as did the winning relationship between Brooks and illustrator Kurt Wiese. The result was twenty-six Freddy books in all  each accompanied by Wieses vibrant and comic illustrations. As Brooks once said  \"Kurt Wiese draws such very sympathetic pigs!\" Celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary is this delightful volume of Kurt Wieses illustrations  capturing the incomparable Freddy in his many guises-as detective  poet  banker  and pilot  just to name a few! Here  too  are Freddys adventures and misadventures  his human and barnyard friends and foes. Together with choice bits of Brookss text  Kurt Wieses illustrations capture the rollicking humor and dramatic spirit of Freddys world. Included  too  are several exciting original Freddy illustrations-never before in print from the collection of Lee Secrest  former president of Friends of Freddy  and keeper of the Freddy archives. An introduction by Michael Cart  one of the foremost authorities on all things Freddy puts Kurt Wieses life and art into context with Freddy and his creator  Walter Brooks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647227781173,"sku":"ByrdShop_1585673153","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781585673155.jpg?v=1781690145","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/art-of-freddy-9781585673155","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}