Desert Rose and her highfalutin hog
By: Alison Jackson ; illustrated by Keith Graves.
Contributors: Graves, Keith, ill.
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers; Distributed to the trade by Macmillan Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780802798336; 9780802798343
Subjects: Tall tales; Animals -- Fiction; Texas -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Upon finding a large gold nugget on her pig farm, Desert Rose sets out to but the biggest, fattest hog in Texas to enter in the state fair, but first she must get the hog to Laredo and every animal she asks for help is just as "ornery" as the hog.