My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza:

    When a delicious looking pig knocks on Mr. Fox’s door by mistake Fox thinks it must be his lucky day.  But what he does not know is that Pig knocked on his door, not by mistake, but with great purpose.  Pig tricked Fox into bathing him, and feeding him, and giving him a massage.  He did all of these things so he would supposedly be a better roast.  But Pig knew at the end of the day that Fox would be too tired to cook the Pig and he would be able to get away without being eaten.  Pig pulled this trick on other neighbors too, and had more on his list to trick. 

    I think this is a fun book to read to the children because they would think it is funny that all of these rough and tough animals are being tricked by a little pig into pampering him.  One activity that would be good for the students to do is to have them create a story mountain for this book.  This would be good practice for them to start out at the beginning and write what happened and then write out certain points of the book until it got to the climax and then write the declining points until the end of the story.  Students in the third grade are just learning how to make story mountains in preparation of writing their own stories.  I like the idea of them starting with a story that is already written and then work backwards to create the story mountain.