Books with title Freddy and the Space Ship Freddy the Pig

"The American version of the great English classics, such as the Pooh books or The Wind in the Willows."--The New York Times Book ReviewFreddy and friends decide to take a trip to Mars in Benjamin Bean's fabulous space ship. But the intrepid explorers are knocked off course and find themselves on a strangely familiar planet, where danger (and Martians) lurk around every corner! Freddy and his friends from the Bean farm make the trip to explore the final frontier-with hilarious results!

From 1927 to 1958, Walter R. Brooks wrote 26 books starring one of the great characters in American children's literature: Freddy the Pig. Freddy is 'Everypig' - he oversleeps, overeats, daydreams, and writes poetry. He's even a little bit lazy. And when he's sacred, his tail uncurls. He is by turns a cowboy, explorer, publisher, poet, magician, banker, pilot, detective. Whatever the situation may call for, Freddy always rises to the occasion The Freddy books, are widely beloved as classics and deemed the American equivalent of the Pooh stories. Charmingly illustrated with the line drawings of Kurt Wiese, these books are a remarkable achievement in children's literature In this book Freddy and his friends take off for Mars in Benjamin Bean's fabulous spaceship, despite the treachery of one Mr Bismuth. But Mrs Peppercorn's fiddling with the controls knocks them off course and lands them in a far stranger place than they had prepared for. Would they survive in this weird land? What was the huge flapping thing that whizzed at them? Would they ever return to Earth?

Published over a 40 year period, the 26 classic books about Freddy the Pig have delighted five generations of children, they are now going on to delight a sixth generation. This beloved children¹s classic is available now as paperback: Freddy and the Space Ship -- The lovable characters from Bean Farm took off for Mars in Benjamin Bean¹s fabulous space ship but Mrs. Peppercorn¹s fiddling with the controls knocked them off their course and landed them in a far more strange place than they had prepared for.