CHILDREN
The Fish Who Cried Wolf
by Julia Donaldson; illustrated by Axel Scheffler
(Scholastic, $17.99 hardcover)
Tiddler is a small fish with a big imagination. The adventures he imagines on his way to school become his excuses for being late each day.
But his teacher's not buying them and his classmates brush them off as too fishy to believe, save for Little Johnny Dory, who shares them with his grandma, who tells a friend, who tells another, who tells another . . .
When Tiddler falls prey to a fisherman's net, every word of the story he comes home with is true.
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, also creators of The Gruffalo, celebrate what's best about young minds that are spilling with wild imaginations and incredible exaggerations. -- Brenda Hoerle