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True Lies: Eighteen Tales
for You to Judge
Illustrated by John O’Brien. Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 2001.
A JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD selection.
AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS
ASSOCIATION Spring “Kids’ Pick of the Lists”
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“The spirited successor to True Lies again challenges readers’
ability to find ‘true lies,’ which Shannon defines as statements
that are ‘technically truthful yet basically a lie.’…
lots of fun.” ALA BOOKLIST
“The combination of brevity, humor, and accessible language should attract reluctant readers, and teachers could use the book to inspire creative-writing exercises and as a discussion starter for how language can be both used and abused.” SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
“Shannon follows up True Lies with more retold anecdotes, drawn from a variety of folk traditions, in which words say more, or less, than they seem to…grist for storytellers and smooth talkers of any age.” KIRKUS