Little Pig Biddle Pig

David Kirk. Scholastic, $9.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-439-30575-4

The newest star in the hand-sized paper-over-board Biddle Book series by David Kirk is Little Pig Biddle Pig, a fetching pink porker who is ""pretty and clean,/ Sweet as alfalfa/ And grand as a queen."" But she is also lonely until she joins the other mud-spattered pigs in the muck. (Sept.)

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