cover image The Freddy Anniversary Collection: Freddy Goes to Florida/Freddy Goes to the North Pole/Freddy the Detective

The Freddy Anniversary Collection: Freddy Goes to Florida/Freddy Goes to the North Pole/Freddy the Detective

Walter R. Brooks. Overlook Press, $35 (432pp) ISBN 978-1-58567-346-9

The kickoff trio of books by Walter L. Brooks unite in one weighty volume, covered in a porcine pink dust jacket: The Freddy Anniversary Collection, illus. by Kurt Wiese. These first three books in the 26-book series published between 1927 and 1958 preserve Wiese's original line drawings throughout, which plays up the vintage look: Freddy Goes to Florida (originally published as To and Again); Freddy Goes to the North Pole (n e More To and Again); and Freddy the Detective. The embossed cover features insets of Wiese's original jacket art.