Walter Brooks's Freddy the Pig first appeared in print in 1927. Devotees and acclaim soon followed, as did the winning relationship between Brooks and illustrator Kurt Wiese. The result was twenty-six Freddy books in all. Celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary is this volume of Kurt Wiese's illustrations, capturing Freddy in his many guises. Here, too, are Freddy's adventures and misadventures, his human and barnyard friends and foes. Together...

From skiing in January to surfing in July, two energetic piglets romp through the months of the years in this calendar in verse.