The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List
Sponsored by the
Illinois School Library Media Association
2006 Nominee: My Lucky Day
When a young pig knocks on a fox's door, Mr. Fox thinks dinner has arrived, but the pig has other plans, in a funny trickster tale with a surprise ending.
Author & Illustrator: Keiko Kasza
- Compare: Other stories with a twist
- Questions: Who is smarter, the pig or the fox? What was
your luckiest day? What other animals would like to eat a pig? How
would you like to be pampered? What book would the pig like to read?
- Language: Pig words, pork products
- Research: Pigs and foxes
- A Mother for Choco
and Don't Laugh Joe by Keiko
Kasza
- The Amazing Bone by William Steig
- The Wolf's Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza
- Lucky Leaf by Kevin O'Malley
- The Luckiest Kid on the Planet by Lisa Campbell Ernst
- True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
- Three Little Wolves and
the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Triviazas