Lying Up a STORM: A Picture Book About Telling the Truth - Softcover

Julia Cook

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937870340 ISBN 13: 9781937870348

Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues, 2015

Synopsis

A storm is brewing... Whenever Levi doesn't like the truth, he kinda, sorta makes up other stuff to say. One day his mother explains to him that telling lies will damage the trust of his friends and make him very sad.

Whenever you tell a lie, your inside sun goes away.

Then a lying cloud forms, and glooms up your day.

Each time you tell a lie, another cloud starts to form,

and before you can stop it from happening, your insides start to storm.

This book is a great resource to help children understand not only the consequences of telling a lie, but also how one lie can often lead to telling several more. It will help parents and teachers understand that lying can be a normal and sometimes healthy response for a child and offers tools to help guide children toward truthfulness.

About this title

About the Author

Julia Cook, M.S. is a national award-winning children's author, counselor, and parenting expert. She has presented in thousands of schools nationally and internationally, regularly speaks at education and counseling conferences, and has published children's books on a wide range of character and social development topics. The goal behind Cook's work is to actively involve young people in fun, memorable stories and teach them to become lifelong problem solvers. Inspiration for her books comes from working with children and carefully listening to counselors, parents, and teachers, in order to stay on top of needs in the classroom and at home. Cook has the innate ability to enter the worldview of a child through storybooks, giving children both the "what to say" and the "how to say it."

Review

What a powerful story! Julia has captured the essence of what every child experiences when lying becomes a choice. From the internal conflict to the "out of control" nature of one little fib leading to another, children experience the full circle of a lie. --Mary Jo Melvin, Ph.D. Professor of Early Childhood Education "Edinboro University"

Lying produces both internal and external consequences. Julia Cook uniquely teaches children the internal repercussions of their fibs in "Lying Up A Storm." As in all of Julia's books, her characters are easily relatable for children. --Katherine Robbins-Hunt, Ph.D. Professor of Special Education "Edinboro University"

Edition details

• Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1937870340
• ISBN 13: 9781937870348
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Michelle Hazelwood Hyde