After finding a gold nugget just a-lyin' in the mud in the pig stalls, Desert Rose buys the biggest, fattest hog in Texas and decides to take him to the state fair in Laredo. Unfortunately, hog refuses to drink up all the water in a bubbling creek so they can walk across. In a cumulative fashion she encounters various animals whose help she seeks, endures their rejection, and exclaims alliteratively about their failure to perform. Rose discovers that greed is the key and that short cuts should sometimes be avoided.
2011-2012 Show Me Reader Award Nominee
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