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K-3Rookie Reader series.
Illustrated by
Susan Miller.
Though people frown and tell her to "act her age," the narrator's nana takes great pleasure in her unconventional mode of transportation, a hog dressed to the nines. Illustrations filled with amusing details (granny wearing pig earrings, for example) complement the simple rhymed text.