By Warren Moore When I was a kid in Nashville, I had free run of the stacks in the local library (at least once my dad told the librarians, “Yeah, he’s eight. Yeah, that’s from the adult section. If he has questions, he’ll ask us.”), but not surprisingly, I spent most of my time in the kids’ section. I bounced from series to series, and my grade school days were filled with the adventures of folks like the Three Investigators, Danny Dunn, and Horace Higby, all of which were reasonably contemporary, and even a little realistic, dealing with mysteries, science fiction and a hybrid of sf and sports. But I connected the most with a series whose hero was a talking pig, who in many ways was the most realistic character I found on those shelves. Walter R. Brooks is probably best remembered by many as the creator of Mr. Ed, but as the Wiki entry notes, his Freddy the Pig series is what has lasted, even fifty-plus years after Brooks’s death. Set in upstate New York in the then-contemporary era, the stories follow the adventures of the “very clever” animals of the Bean Farm, and especially those of the
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