Freddys Big Adventure (Tales from the Zoo Book 1)

One night, Freddy and Pele decided to embarkupon the greatest journey they would ever endure. When night fell, and all of the elders were fastasleep, Freddy and Pele ever-so-gently pushed thegate open, taking care not to make a sound. Steppingbeyond the petting area gates, they were taking thefirst steps of a journey that would change their livesforever. It was dark, and they had no idea what they wouldencounter. Would the great beasts sneak up on them,or would they find that there were no great beastsat all?

As they crept quietly along the path, the oncedistant roars that they could hear from the pettingarea were getting closer and closer. In fact, they weregetting so close that Freddy and Pele could feel theground shaking ever so slightly beneath their hooves. Instead, Freddy felt relieved, for he was beginningto quiver with fear, too. Freddy and Pele spun around to find a pair ofglowing eyes glaring at them from the darkness. They were both frozen with fear, and could not runor scream. They just stood there, trying to see beyondthe glowing eyes at what was standing before them.

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They wondered what the beastmeant. Just then, more beastsappeared from the darkness, and they all beganto snicker and laugh. Freddy and Pele stoppedfeeling afraid, and began to feel embarrassedand confused; it felt like the beasts were makingfun of them. I am the fastest cat in the world; Ican even run as fast as a car. All of the cats began to laugh and point.

How can you even playtogether? What fun is that?

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So,they walked away with their heads hanging low. Pele felt frustrated; he just wanted to get home. It was scary, dark, and cold,and all he wanted to do was curl up in his warm, safebed back in the petting area. As Pele sat waiting for Freddy to finish resting,he remembered what the Bengal tiger had said aboutplaying with his own kind.

Pele was getting very frustrated. I want to go home. Pele snapped back at his friend. That made Freddy feel sad; Pele had never beenmean to him before. He jumped to his hooves. The two friends walked in silence,until Pele noticed that they had walked in a circle. Freddy sniffed into the wind and smelled thepetting area in the distance. Freddy laid down to rest up. Freddy closed his eyes andtried to shake off the tight feeling he had in hisstomach.

Just then, Freddy heard the faint soundsof human footsteps coming his way.

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He knew itmust be the zookeeper, and he would be in bigtrouble if he got caught outside of the pettingarea. Freddy jumped to his hooves and darted offinto the woods. He was running as fast as he could through thewoods, when he suddenly began to tumble down asteep hill and over the edge of a wall. When a storm damages Centerboro, the Bean farm animals volunteer to help Mr. Boomschmidt clean his circus grounds. Freddy is thrilled to meet Signor Zingo, the circus magician — until Zingo is unnecessarily rude about Freddy's friends.

When the magician's rabbit Presto is fired, Freddy takes him to the farm to learn his magic tricks.

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Though this seems to work well, and Freddy masters many tricks, sometimes the rabbit is rude, like his ex-master. The zoo lion Leo visits Freddy at the farm, his mane sheared on account of hopeless tangles after his last visit to a beauty parlor. He warns that Zingo has used Presto in shady deals, and relates that Zingo has been fired, and is staying at Mr. Freddy has become accomplished at simple tricks involving hidden pockets and wants to saw a girl in two. Jinx, the cat, suggests he and his sister do the trick, since it uses the front of one animal, and the back of the other.

During the storm the magician's hat was lost; Zingo will not let Presto back until it is found. After the hat is recovered and placed into the bank vault, Presto claims that, unlike the magician's other tricks, the hat is magical, and really does make him invisible. Freddy considers, and is both sure it does make the rabbit vanish, and sure that it does not.

Freddy decides to ask Old Whibley, the gruff yet wise owl, for advice, and is told to use his own eyes and "look at it". Freddy does and discovers a false bottom. Yet Presto shows no hurry about returning to Zingo. Freddy goes to town to rent the theater to present a magic show. He visits the jail, where the sheriff and the inmates are his friends. It is effectively a friendly country club. When Freddy finds a thief among the inmates the sheriff says " Can't have a thief in my jail.

While setting up the show, Freddy learns that Presto has been recently seen with Zingo.

The show opens, and without warning the rabbit Presto introduces an offer to pay five dollars to anyone if they can explain a trick. Zingo is in the audience, and explains many. Luckily, some of Freddy's tricks are new and cannot be explained. Zingo, however, still takes more money from Freddy than Freddy makes.

Presto is captured by the Bean animals, and reveals that he only came to the farm to get the animals' help retrieving the magician's hat. Minx believes the hat makes her invisible, so they play a pointed joke on her. They place her in the hat, then pretend she cannot be seen or heard. The farm animals are instructed to pretend she's not there, and also to make comments about how nice it is to have her gone. Convinced of her invisibility, she boldly eats food from the Bean's table; Mrs. Bean throws her off and drives her out of the house with a broom.

Zingo announces his own magic show, which will challenge anyone to explain his tricks. When Freddy visits the sheriff, he learns that Zingo is staying at the hotel, refusing to pay bills on account of bugs in his food that he has obviously placed there, himself. Freddy determines to check into the hotel in disguise as owner Ollie Groper's nephew, carrying with him a suitcase of mice, spiders and Jinx to spy on Zingo.

In this way they watch the magician's activities, and learn that Minx will help Zingo rob the animal bank. Well-warned, the animals trap Zingo in the bank, but he shows his villainy by shooting his way out. Freddy's hotel role now makes Zingo suspicious, and they play dirty tricks on one other. Zingo frames Freddy in a department store by stuffing the pig's pockets with unpaid items.

Zingo's insistence that he will forgive Freddy only if he gets his hat back rouses suspicion; on examination Boomschmidt's money is found in it. Freddy and his team go into hiding in rooms under the stage where Zingo will perform, and make modifications to his equipment. During the show, one trick after another goes wrong.