This book is definitely a hilarious take on the buttoned-up Mary Poppins nanny adventures from a few generations ago. The Green family is hiring a nanny, and the only one to apply is Nanny Piggins--an actual pig. She has no interest in improving her charges or trying to make them do anything except eat as much chocolate as they can, so naturally the children love her. Each chapter of the book is a different adventure or scrape the kids get into with their nanny leading the charge. It was a very witty and cute book, but definitely above Dane's level of understanding. The main thing that he was interested in after reading the first chapter was how the kids' mom had died in a boating accident (which was thrown in as a kind of comical aside) and after reading some from another chapter we decided to read another book together (and I finished it on my own to see how the rest of the story turned out). I think he will like it in a few more years, which is why I decided to still write about it here to check it out again another time.
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