Hello! If you are not familiar with The Clockwork Twin, please take a moment
to review Michael Cart’s brief review of this fourth book in the Freddy series
on the landing page of www.freddythepig.org. Then join us in reading the book this
fall in celebration of the 75th anniversary of its publication. We would love to have your comments on The Clockwork Twin or anything else
Freddy-related.
This is our first attempt at a blog on Friends of Freddy. As I read through the instructions, Google said this about getting started blogging:
“What will happen then? Who knows. It might be fun, though.”
I wonder if the person who wrote those words had ever read The Clockwork Twin? We’re going to try this experiment and see what happens. Who knows? Like Adoniram and Georgie, we may all have a lot of fun.
First Scenes. Do you have a favorite first scene in Freddy?
The Clockwork Twin begins with one of
the best scenes in all of Freddy: Adoniram and Georgie, the little brown dog,
are floating down a flooded river in a small outbuilding. They have no food and
they are too far away from shore to be rescued. Under these trying
circumstances, it is not surprising that Adoniram begins to worry. Georgie, on
the other hand, assumes a more insouciant air.
“’Isn’t this
fun?’ said Georgie.
‘Why –yes,’
said Adoniram. ‘Only I can’t help thinking about–‘
‘About all
the awful things that may happen–is that it?’ asked the dog. ‘Well, why don’t
you think about how maybe they won’t happen? Why don’t you think about nice things that may happen? It doesn’t
cost any more. Maybe we will be
carried out to sea. But then, maybe we’ll be rescued by a warship or an ocean
liner, and live on it, and maybe you’ll learn how to run it, and maybe when you
grow up you’ll be captain.’
‘Oh, could
I?’ asked Adoniram.
‘How do I know?’ said Georgie, ‘But one thing’s certain: there
are hundreds of boys our age that are going to be sea captains some day and
don’t know it. Maybe you’re one of them.’”
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