After Freddy, a perceptive and poetic pig, helps a nearsighted Robin get glasses and aids in planning an important wedding, he and the other Bean farm animals try to change a slingshot-wielding boy into a friend.

While clever Freddy the pig tries to find out if Mrs. Bean's long-lost brother is really who he claims to be, he also attends high school so that he will be eligible to play in the big football game between Centerboro and Tushville.

When the Bean farm animals form the First Animal Republic, Freddy the pig fights for justice and fair government against plotting rats and woodpeckers.

Freddy the pig and his animal friends use a clockwork doll that is the double of a mistreated young farm boy to help him get away from the cruel people who claim to be his aunt and uncle.