Freddy and the Perilous Adventure

‘Freddy laughed...“That's the funny thing about adventures. I've had my share of them in my time, as you know, and my experience is that either you're too busy to think whether you're enjoying them or not, or else you're just scared. And yet there must be something about them that you like, too, or else you wouldn't go on trying to have more.”‘

Freddy the pig and his two duck friends go up in a hot air balloon, but when it comes time to let the balloon down, the valve doesn't work. Freddy is accused of stealing the balloon. Can Freddy figure out a way to get the balloon back to its owner without being arrested and sent to prison?

Does anyone else remember the talking pig, Freddy, who, along with his animal friends, set off on their various adventures? I couldn't resist picking up this book at a library sale some years ago, but it has been lingering on my shelves for too long. Now it will be off to a new reader via my LFL.