My Lucky Day

This has got to be the funniest children's book I have ever read. This book is meant for pre-schoolers and above, but the humor will be best appreciated by adults. This book tells us that some of the things that we perceive to be blessings may be the opposite or that we have to be wary of scammers, even if they come in the form of an innocent-looking, cutesy, little pig. Children love this at story-telling time because of the animal characters that are easy for them to identify and whose sounds they love to make. Here are some excerpts from the book:







The story starts off at the house of the wolf who suddenly gets an "unexpected" visit from a pig. Thinking it was his lucky day, the wolf grabs the pig and prepares him for his dinner.












However, the pig makes all sorts of requests (which the wolf naively grants) to postpone its inevitable demise. First, the pig says it's's too filthy to be eaten so it requests for a bath.



















Next, it said it was too thin and needed to be fattened up so it will be a better meal for the wolf.












Finally, and this has to be the clincher - the pig requests for a massage so that its tough meat becomes more tender.

















So who do you think is the lucky one in this story?























My Lucky Day, Scholastic, Inc.